Environmental Legislation and its Impact

In this 21th century, one of the greatest threats to our water resources comes from the pollution being generated by the various sources.While this is a worldwide problem but it is particularly severe in India due to increased population, lack of implementation of environmental legislation, unawareness amongst the group of people, leniency by the judicial authorities while addressing the cases of contempt of their orders, presence of audacity amongst the violators to the environmental laws.In India, where development is considered at the top priority by the government at the cost of damage to the environment, the problem of water pollution has to be addressed urgently in order to avoid large scale calamities.It is in this context that this study paper focused on the state of Madhya Pradesh looks at the Air and Water Acts implementation and execution of various orders issued by the NGT.This paper also suggests possible alternatives to overcome the existing lacunas so that ensure effective implementation of the Acts as well as orders of NGT.However, this paper is not having any intention to criticize the present functioning of the official departments.On the other way, it is having a constructive intention to bring into the notices of the top decision making authorities regarding the present status of execution of legislation in our state.It is merely an effort to be brought into the notice of all concerned departments regarding the lack of implementation of the guideline framed by the NGT and the acts enacted by the Government of India.Since all data are procured under RTI Act 2005 hence it has fully certified and cannot be claimed counterfeit.Efforts have been made to produce all statistics and information collected from various authenticated sources, yet any minor variation cannot be overruled.This paper needs to have an urgent look at the issues raised therein.