Tag: Article 48A
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Policy Action to tackle Air Pollution in Delhi
Information about the Issue: In a Supreme Court Judgement dated December 2, 2016 (M.C. Mehta v Union Of India), the Court directed the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) to prepare and implement a plan to eliminate the problem of excessive air pollution in Delhi-NCR. Thereafter, the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) was prepared and implemented…
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A Critical Study of Laws on Noise Pollution in India: Prospects and Limitations
By Debokarsho Dutta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Pollution in many ways seems like an inevitable curse of human civilization. With greater emphasis on material structures of progress, focus on the indisputable logic of “urbanization” as a manifestation of that progress and a seemingly perplexing lack of consideration for the immaterial, the spiritual and the metaphysical seems…