• About EMA

The Environmental Medical Association was inaugurated by Shri.Sushilkumar S. Shinde, the then Minister of Environment in 1982 at the Press Club of Mumbai.

We have completed almost 3 decades. Our objective has been to ensure that all the human beings are assured to get unpolluted air to breath, palatable and potable water to drink and unadulterated food to consume.

Our Motto

• To achieve by persuasion and co-operation and not by criticism and confrontation, to assure development that is - Technology without Tears.
• To promote clean environment
• "Catch them young!" To start teaching the benefits of Environmental upkeep at the very prime receptive age.
• Work from inside with the law implementing, law making and executive authorities.
• Promote and guide to maintain a social, cultural, harmonious and dignified association.

Our Slogans

• True Environmentalist is the person who keeps the neighbors compound clean.
• Life Sustains Life
• Embrace Green - remain ever green
• With our political, beaurocrates, financial power we may be able to live in a palatial house, drink potable and palatable water and have palatable food. However, the air we breathe is the same as the common man unless we carry oxygen cylinders like mountaineers or Scuba Divers.

Our Achievements

• We were able to convince Hon. Justice Shri. Rangnath Mishra to consider the right to clean air to breath, potable water to drink and palatable food to eat, as a Human Right.
• Violation of this leads to Human Rights violation. He as the Chairman of the Human Right Association of India took cognizance of our complaints near the Deonar Dumping ground and it was looked into by the Goverment of Maharashtra.
• Stoppage of use of Kerosene in auto rickshaws at Ahemdabad through the Prime Minister's office - Shri.Narsimha Rao.
• Our Representative accompanied Shri.Narasimha Raoji to the Earth Summit Conference at Rio.
• We have organized 17 major Conferences on Environment on various topics and innumerable CME Programmes.
• We were instrumental in bringing up the Green Bench in the High Court and Supreme Court and persuaded the Government to implement the "No Honking" Act.
• Instrumental in banning smoking at public places.
• Able to persuade the concerned authorities to green the traffic island, dividers between the highways and expressways and making compulsory the plantation of trees in housing societies.
• Promoting the Environmental marathon of the School Children on the occasion of Shivaji's Birthday at Raigad Fort covering a distance of 150-250Km. since last 10 years.
• We have been able to persuade Adivasis to use alternate fuel in place of wood, reducing the tree cutting.