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Abstract

The environmental awareness needs to be cultivated in any society to be an ideal society, or rather to be more precise, in other words, an ideal society means the society which has the environmental awareness. There is no dearth of legislation on environmental protection in India but their enforcement has not been satisfactory. There is a need for the effective and efficient enforcement of the Constitutional mandate and other environmental legislation. The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 compelled the enactment of the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. The clauses of the EPA vested this new ministry with powers to take the required measures 'to protect and improve the environment'. This includes regulating industrial activities, delegating responsibilities to specialized agencies and creating standards for managing environmental quality. This research paper is focused on the study of the effectiveness of environmental laws for environmental protection in India.