• Dr. Joyeeta Saha

The post-colonial India faced with the problems of safeguarding its environment. While doing so, it framed laws regarding environment protection in many stages. The economic development policy adopted by India after independence was through different five year the plans. The acceleration of the process of economic development through industrialization further added to the deterioration of the environment in the form of disposal of industrial wastes and mining of resources for industries. The Environment Protection Act of 1986 provided a definite direction for maintaining a complementary relationship among land, water, air and human beings. The two fold spatial spreads of the environmental laws in India are governed by the union and the states. The monopoly houses of India who holds large manufacturing industries quite often avoid implementation of the guidelines provided by the environment protection acts of India because it requires investment of capital in constructing the waste material disposal plants., etc. in the early nineties, the government of India both at union and state levels emphasised the need to involve people in several ways to protect environment from degradation. At present there are about two hundred central and state legislations in India which are directly or indirectly concerned with environmental protection. The present paper deals with the issue of environmental laws, Environmental Protection Act, the water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act, air prevention and control of pollution, and case studies of air, water and mining pollution. For the purpose of efficient and effective enforcement of these laws, it is necessary to set up an Adjuratory Body which should consist of legal as well as technical experts. Caring for regulating and protecting the environment is essentially a desire to see that national development should proceed along the rational sustainable laws.

environmental issues, laws, air pollution, water pollution, mining.

"Environmental Issues And Laws In India: An Overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.f50-f54, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401508.pdf

"Environmental Issues And Laws In India: An Overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppf50-f54, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401508.pdf