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Ganga Calling is a project of the Indian Council for Enviro-Legal Action (ICELA). The organization was founded in 1989 to work for environmental protection in India. ICELA works to do the following:
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| About the Honourable Mr. Justice P.N. Bhagwati - President of ICELA | ||
| Justice Bhagwati sat with distinction as Chief Justice of India from 1985-86, after serving on the bench Indian Supreme Court (1973-85), and the Gujurat High Court (1960-67). During his twenty-six years on the bench, he pronounced several landmark judgements and was responsible for a number of reforms which resulted in improving the access of vulnerable groups to justice. The most well known of these reforms are the introduction of public interest litigation and enlargement of the doctrine of locus standi to permit NGOs and other social action groups to initiate petitions before the Supreme Court and High Courts on behalf of disadvantaged persons whose human rights are violated. [source: IIGEP] |
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| About M.C. Mehta - General Secretary of ICELA | ||
M.C. Mehta is one of the world's most renowned and successful activists. A lawyer by profession and a committed environmentalist by choice, he has made the fight to protect India's environment his unending mission. He has pioneered legal activism for environmental protection and is proof that one man can make a difference. He is the winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Asia for Public Service (1997) and the Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia (1996).
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