Abstract

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION VIS-A-VIS AN ECOLOGICALLY BALANCED AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: AN INDIAN EXEMPLAR OF GREEN INDIA

TOWSEEF AHMAD Legum Magister (LL.M), Legum Doctor Scholar (LL.D Scholar)

Volume: 3 Issue: 4 2013

Abstract:

The excessive passion for industrialization, urbanization, modernization and technological advancements has become manifest at the peril of the environment which has led to the overexploitation of the environment with its attending consequences on disturbing the ecological balance and natural resources, the problems of deforestation, soil degradation, generation of large number of chemicals and potential toxic wastes, pollution of air, water pollution, acid rain, mining and quarrying, ozone layer depletion, problems of ground water management and city sewerage system, pollution of marine ecosystems, the continuing loss and degradation of biodiversity and climate change seriously aggravating the problem.

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