It has been decided to set up a Task Force on Urban Environmental Issues for the Environment and Forests Sector for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. The composition of the Task Force will be as under:

1.	Shri KC Shivaramakrishnan, RK Puram, New Delhi	Chairman
2.	Dr. Shreekant Gupta, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi	Member
3.	Shri Miloon Kothari, B-28 Nizamuddin East, New Delhi	Member
4.	Ms Sharvasree Gokhale, Principal Secretary, Env., Maharashtra	Member

II. Terms of Reference of the Task Force will be as follows:

1. Review the current laws, policies, procedures and practices related to management of urban environmental issues and recommend correctives.
2. Similarly review the institutional and individual capacities available to address urban environmental issues and recommend how they may be adequately strengthened.
3. Explore ways of promoting the much needed inter-sectoral dialogue amongst Environment and Forest, Urban Development and Transport Ministries to address urban environmental issues.
4. Examine issues related to schemes/programmes with greatly overlapping objectives, with different Ministries, at Government of India level, to bring efficiency in implementation of programmes, to avoid duplication in funding from different Ministry and to help in achieving objectives in integrated manner, in particular with respect to NRCD, JNNURM, UIDSSMT.
5. Review the current EIA laws, policies, procedures and practices as being applied in the urban context and recommend corrective measure to address significant issues such as population and vehicular density, parking spaces, acceptable noise levels, and play grounds and spaces with green cover.
6. Ministry of Environment and Forests will provide basic information and data input to the Task Force as and when required.
7. The Chairperson of the Task Force will be free to co-opt any official / non-official as special invitee for its meeting.
8. Official member of the Task Force will be paid TA/DA by their respective Departments as per the rules of entitlement applicable to them. The non-official members will be paid TA/DA by the Planning Commission as per SR 190 (a) for attending meetings of the Task Force.
9. The Task Force will submit its report to the Chairman, Working Group on Environment by 31.10.2006.
10. Shri M. Ravindranath, Joint Adviser (E and F), Room No. 301, Yojana Bhavan ( Tel No. 23096725) will be the Nodal Officer for the Task Force for all further communications.