Indian Administrative Service
Mahesh Buch joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1957. Thereafter he has held a number of senior posts under the state government in the State of Madhya Pradesh and in the federal government.
These include the posts of Collector and District Magistrate of a district, Director, Tribal Welfare, Secretary and Commissioner of the environmental group of departments including Town Country Planning, Housing and Forests, head of the Delhi Development Authority, Director General of the National Institute of Urban Affairs and Vice-Chairman of National Commission on Urbanization. He voluntarily retired from service in October 1984.
Mahesh Buch is Chairman of the National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment at Bhopal, an applied research institution working in the field of settlements planning, forestation, environmental protection, watershed management, consumer protection and skill development. He has won the UNEP award for implementation of desertification control program in 1994-95, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1998 and the Man of Vision Award instituted by the Hindustan Times in 2003. His main areas of concern are Town Country Planning, Housing, forestation and Environmental Protection.
We met up with MN Buch at his home in Bhopal to discuss the zoning rules of the town and country planning act in the mid-70’s, and how the new rules blocked the expansion plans of the Union Carbide facility. He request Union Carbide to relocate if they wished to change the facility from processing to production of pesticides.
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