ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
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The term ‘environment’ generally connotes surroundings. However, a more specific meaning which has been assigned to the term ‘environment’ covers the physical surroundings that are common to all living beings and include air, space, water, land, plants, wildlife, flora, fauna etc.
Section 2(a) of the Environment protection Act, 1986 defines ‘Environment’ which includes “water, air, land and the inter-relationship which exists between them on the one hand and human beings, livings creatures, plants, micro-organism and property, on the other.”
The term ‘Pollution’ is derived from the word ‘pollute’ which means to make foul unclean or dirty. Thus ,pollution may be defined as “The release of substances and energy as waste products of human activities which result in changes usually harmful, within the natural environment”1.
According to the United States Councils on Environmental Quality, Environment means man’s total environmental system including not only the biosphere, but also his interactions with his natural and man made surroundings.
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