Legal Monitoring Cell (LMC)
- DIVISIONS
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Establishment Divisions
- Administration
- Budget and Accounts (BA)
- Cash Section (Cash)
- Civil Construction Unit (CCU)
- Development Monitoring and Evalution (DME)
- Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Cell
- Economic Division (ED)
- General Administration (GA)
- General Coordination (GC)
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- Information Technology (IT)
- Integrated Finance (IF)
- Internal Work Study Unit (IWSU)
- International Coorperation (IC)
- Legal Monitoring Cell (LMC)
- Media Cell (MC)
- National Green Tribunal Cell (NGT)
- National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
- Non - Govermental Organisations (NGO)
- Official Language (OL)
- Parliament
- Policy & Law (PL)
- Protocol
- Public Grievances (PG)
- Statistical Cell
- Swachh aur Swasth Bharart Cell
- Trade and Environment (T&E)
- Vigilance
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Environment Divisions
- Clean Technology (CT)
- Climate Change (CC)
- Conservation and Survey (CS)
- Control of Pollution (CP)
- Environment Education (EE)
- Environmental Health(EH)
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Environmental Information (EI)
- Hazardous Substances Management (HSM)
- Montreal Protocol & Ozone Cell
- Research in Environment(RE)
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Wetlands
- Items of Work Handled
- Ramsar Convention
- National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems
- Capacity Building and Outreach
- Regulatory Framework, Wetlands Rules
- National Wetlands Inventory & Assessment
- Wetlands of India Portal
- World Wetlands Day
- Wetlands Publications
- Success Stories
- Global Wetland Outlook
- Contact Details
- Life Cell
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Forest & Wildlife Divisions
- Desertification Cell
- Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ)
- Externally Aided Projects (EAP)
- Forest Conservation (FC)
- Forest Eductation (FE)
- Forest Establishment (FE)
- Forest Policy (FP)
- Forest Protection (FPD)
- Forest Services (FS)
- Green India Mission (GIM)
- Project Elephant (PE)
- Regional Office Head Quarter (ROHQ)
- Research & Training (Forestry) (RT)
- Survey and Utilization (SU)
- Wildlife (WL)
Introduction
Legal Monitoring Cell (LMC) is a part of the Ministry which is engaged in the monitoring, coordination and supervision of the court cases pertaining to the Ministry and also act as an dedicated desk of the Ministry in tendering opinion and advices whether procedural or substantive on legal issue on the request made by the various divisions of the Ministry. Presently, the court cases pending before various Tribunals/ Courts/ Forums, wherein MoEF&CC is one of the party, are supervised by LMC.
LMC effectively supervise and monitor the daily development of the cases and accordingly gets update and communicate with the Division for the effective conducting court cases.
LMC act as an Administrative Unit of the Legal Assistants working under the Ministry assigned to various divisions.
LMC coordinates with all divisions in respect of court cases and legal matters, coordinates with counsel all over India, conducting court cases.
LMC works with the team of Legal Assistants (25 presently) posted in different divisions to assist the Ministry in conducting Court Cases, preparing and vetting replies/Affidavits etc.
LMC is presently being headed by Shri Mahesh Tyagi, Senior Consultant (Legal).