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Article 226 And The High Courts

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The Supreme Court under Article 32 and the High Courts under Article 226 of the Constitution have passed a number of orders and directions for this concern. Like the conversion of all public transport in the Metropolitan City of Delhi from diesel engine to CNG engine on the basis of the order of the High Court of Delhi to ensure that the pollution level is mitigated and this is being totally observed for the last several years. Now only vehicles running on Compressed Natural Gas are given permission to ply on Delhi roads for public transport.

Louise Erdrich Bigogress, who is an environmentalist has quite aptly observed that "grass and sky are two canvasses into which the rich details of the earth are drawn." In 1980s, the courts paid special attention to the problem of environmental degradation and passed a number of directions and orders to make sure the that environment ecology, wildlife are saved, preserved and protected. Every day hundreds of thousands of industries are functioning without pollution control procudures. Lakhs of Indians work in mines and do hazardous work without proper safety protection. Each day lakhs of litres of harmful raw discharged effluents are dumped into our rivers and lakhs of tons of hazardous waste is simply dumped on the Earth. The environment around us, as a result become so degraded, that instead of nurturing us it is now poisoning us. In this context, in many cases, the Supreme Court has intervened in the issued and has issued many

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