Shri Narendra Modi ji,

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India

Dear Sir,

We, the citizens and environmental groups of India, appeal to you to make Green Accountability the top national agenda for 2026.

Environmental degradation across our cities, coasts and hills continues unchecked. Wetlands are being filled, mangroves destroyed, hills stripped by quarrying, and air quality increasingly threatens public health. Citizens fight daily to protect these natural assets — yet officials and elected representatives often remain silent, ignoring violations and public complaints.
This silence is not helplessness; it reflects complicity in irreversible ecological damage.

As our New Year resolution and action plan for 2026, we urge you to place accountability at the core of environmental governance. We respectfully request the following actions:

Hold officials and elected representatives responsible for ecological violations in their constituencies.
Order strict action against authorities who ignore or suppress citizen complaints.
Fast-track all pending wetland notifications and safeguard vulnerable flamingo habitats.
Strengthen monitoring of quarries, mangrove belts, coastal zones and polluted waterbodies through transparent reporting systems.
Establish a dedicated Green Police and fast-track environmental courts, as the current legal framework is not adequate to handle urgent ecological violations.
Citizens have taken their New Year resolution seriously. We ask our leaders to do the same.

Across Maharashtra and beyond, communities have fought relentlessly to protect wetlands, mangroves, lakes, hills and trees. Recent gains — such as the declaration of DPS Lake as a Conservation Reserve, the revival efforts at Powai Lake, the NGT ruling on Aksa Beach, and the Bombay High Court’s directive on mangroves — were achieved only because citizens refused to give up.

These successes reflect public commitment, not political initiative. Meanwhile, silence from many elected representatives has allowed quarrying near the Tata Cancer Hospital, denudation of hills in Kharghar and Thane, wetland-filling in Navi Mumbai and mangrove destruction along the coast.

Environmental destruction today is not an administrative oversight — it is a governance failure affecting millions.

Climate change is real, and rising sea levels cannot be ignored, especially in coastal regions already weakened by the loss of natural buffers such as wetlands and mangroves.

You have consistently emphasised the importance of a healthy environment for India’s future. We, therefore, appeal to you to make ecological accountability a non-negotiable duty for every public authority in 2026 and beyond.

India urgently needs a system where environmental laws are enforced without fear or favour, violations are penalised swiftly, and natural assets are protected — not sacrificed.

The environment cannot wait any longer. We appeal for your leadership.

Thanks and  regards,
NatConnect Foundation 

Picture: A huge inyertidal wetland at Jasai in Uran being buried in 2018-19. The destruction is ciomplete now.