Tag: Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
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India running out of Air: Can we rescue the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981?
India’s toxic air has led to a health as well as an economic crisis. As per the World Bank, India lost 8.5% GDP in 2013 due to air pollution, which roughly amounts to $221 billion; the situation has only worsened in the last 6 years. India has some Acts and Programs in place to prevent…
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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…