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Kathmandu Monday July 16, 2001 Shrawan 01, 2058.
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Concerns over environment problems
raised
KATHMANDU, July 14 - Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya today
stressed the need for strengthening of the lower courts enabling them to
entertain environment-related issues.
"Unless the lower courts are made effective to look after
environment-related cases, those poor and neglected people residing in
the remote areas will be denied of environmental justice," said Chief
Justice Upadhyaya addressing an inaugural session of the four-day
interaction programme on Environment and Justice organised jointly by
the Judicial Council and the Pro Public. Upadhyaya said that in most
South Asian countries unlike the high courts, the lower courts have not
been able to move ahead to entertain environment-related cases.
Speaking further Upadhyaya said that environment is a global agenda and
that the conservation of environment has stood as a challenge to the
South Asian nations mired in poverty and population explosion.
On the occassion, Justices Laxman Prasad Aryal and Kedar Nath Upadhyaya
stressed the need for basic knowledge regarding the environment among
the judges without which they would not be in position to deliver
justice in cases related to environment. "Judges should be well
acquainted with environmental issues," said Aryal.
Judicial Council Secretary Kashi Raj Dahal and founder chairman of Pro
Public Dr Sri Krishna Shrestha stressed the need for such interaction
programme which would help to disseminate information regarding the
environmental issues that have become a global agenda today.
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