UPSC Prelims 2016·GS1·geography·ecology and environment

'Gadgil Committee Report' and 'Kasturirangan Committee Report', sometimes seen in the news, are related to

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  1. Aconstitutional reforms
  2. BGanga Action Plan
  3. Clinking of rivers
  4. Dprotection of Western GhatsCorrect

Explanation

Both the 'Gadgil Committee Report' (officially, the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, WGEEP, chaired by Madhav Gadgil, submitted in 2011) and the 'Kasturirangan Committee Report' (officially, the High-Level Working Group on Western Ghats, HLWG, chaired by K. Kasturirangan, submitted in 2013) were commissioned by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Their primary mandate was to assess the ecological health of the Western Ghats region and recommend measures for its conservation and protection, addressing concerns about environmental degradation and sustainable development in this biodiversity hotspot.
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