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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by Congress leader KV Thomas, has recommended bringing water in the concurrent list of the Constitution.
The panel, in a report titled ‘Water Pollution in India’, urged the Centre to come up with a national legislation on water. At the moment, water is a State subject.
The committee said there is a need to recognise water as a finite and vulnerable resource. “The Committee has urged the Government to take urgent action to set the stage for enactment of a comprehensive national legislation on water after evolving a broad national consensus to bring it in the concurrent list and formulate an over-arching national legal framework for effective water management, conservation, development and equitable distribution with adequate provisions for devolution necessary authority to the lower tiers of Government,” the report said.
The committee said the existing legislations on water should be comprehensively reviewed. It said funds available for control and prevention of water pollution were meagre and urged the Centre to strictly monitor its projects in the area.
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