• Dr Shabnam Mahlawat
• VIKAS KUMAR

The resilience of air pollution violating fundamental rights for all calls for injunction for those activities causing the pollution, in turn adversely affecting the environment. This alarming proposition is reflected, because of news items appearing on a report telecast in Indian news by the channel NDTV on 23rd March 2022, of IQAIR, a Swiss firm tracking the world air quality around the world of its revelations that Delhi, the Indian capital city is the most polluted, out of 100 polluted cities in the world successively for the fourth year since 2017. This mayhem projects Delhi’s pollution levels have an increase of 15% from the previous year (the annual average for PM 2.5 was 96.4 micrograms per cubic metre), this being 20% higher than WHO's safety limit which is five. The other downcast is that including Delhi there are 63 cities in India which constitute the most polluted out of a total of 100 cities across the world. The reflections cause concern to those who decipher the implications of such data as to the legal system and its implementation mechanisms, which are not very effective to elucidate the policies, laws and judicial systems to tackle the problem of air pollution. This calls for revisiting the policies and implementation framework of India including judicial activism and implementation or the lack of it to tackle the problem wherever lies the responsibility. Although these should have been reorganized in 2017 when the data was projected to be shown to increase for PM 2.5 particles to 84 in 2017 from 66 in 2015. The Corona pandemic may have slowed down certain activities, but appear to be on the rise again with the opening up of the economies across the world. With the concerns of these reports as being serious and of urgent consideration, the Article deems to undertake the study to critically analyse the existing legal regime curbing Air pollution and find the answer to the question, mainly, “Do the laws and implementation processes, relating to air pollution in India, need to be revisited?”

Air pollution, Indian laws, health hazards, implications, pollution fines, & penalties

"REVISITING THE INDIAN AIR TERRESTRIAL POLICIES UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.c459-c470, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206255.pdf

"REVISITING THE INDIAN AIR TERRESTRIAL POLICIES UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppc459-c470, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206255.pdf