The proposed National Investment Board (NIB), if formed, will be an undemocratic authority that can overrule the decisions of India's environment ministry - putting India's wildlife, our forests and the lives of people who depend on them in great danger.

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Imagine if all the big companies of India and around the world got an easy license to destroy our forests, take away people’s livelihoods and accelerate global warming! It’s not an idea that you or we would ever propose but the Government of India is on the verge of making such licensing a reality. Over the past couple of weeks, there has been an intense debate within the Government and civil society on the setting up of a National Investment Board (NIB). A committee of people that will be given supreme authority to ignore our existing environment and forest laws and give clearances to big infrastructure projects.

The NIB is being proposed in the hope of improving India’s economy but allowing the destruction of our natural wealth will only make us poorer in the long run. Big coal projects are amongst many that will get an easy access to plunder our forests, and with impacted communities not even getting a say in these clearances it undermines our country’s democracy! We know the long term costs of coal on our environment and people’s health will far outweigh the short run economic benefits of exploiting coal.

We need to send out a strong message to our Prime Minister and his cabinet that the NIB will only do more harm than good. Luckily the Environment and Tribal Affairs ministers of India are against the idea of the NIB and we need to support their statements!

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