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Environmental Law
The Indian Constitution ensures that it is the duty of the state to ‘protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country’. It binds every citizen ‘to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers, and wildlife’. In India, in 1980, the department of Environment was formed to create healthy environment within the country and subsequently, in 1985, it was given a shape of Ministry of Environment and Forests.
The Environment Protection Act EPA (EPA), 1986 was enacted soon after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Thereafter many laws came into existence as the problems began arising, such as, Handling and Management of Hazardous Waste Rules in 1989.
Indian Environmental Laws can be classified as follows:
General
Forest And Wildlife
Water
Air
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