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The air, the city,
& your right to it.
Clean air and a livable city aren't a favour — the Supreme Court reads them into your right to life. Noise, waste, water, trees and the tribunal any citizen can approach.
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21
A clean environment is part
of the right to life (Art 21)
of the right to life (Art 21)
2010Green Tribunal set up
10pmNight silence begins
SUPSingle-use plastic ban
BS-VIEmission standard
India's environmental rulebook
1974
Water Act
First law to prevent and control water pollution.
1981
Air Act
Pollution control boards get power over air quality.
1986
EPA
Environment Protection Act — the umbrella law after Bhopal.
2010
NGT
National Green Tribunal — a fast-track court for the environment.
2016
Waste Rules
Solid-waste, plastic and e-waste segregation rules notified.
2022
Plastic ban
Identified single-use plastics banned nationwide.
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Every snap in this journey, as a list · 53
- Single-use plastic ban
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- Silence zones (hospitals)
- Borewell / extraction rules
- Sewage discharge
- Common-area rights
- Parking disputes
- Encroachment
- Restoration directions
- Appeals to SC
- BS-VI norms
- End-of-life vehicle rules
- No-idling zones
- Urban wildlife conflict
- Prevention of Cruelty Act
- Clean air as a right
- Reading the AQI
- GRAP stages, explained
- Construction-dust rules
- Firecracker rules now
- Decibel limits by zone
- 10pm–6am silence
- Loudspeaker permission
- Filing a noise complaint
- Wet/dry segregation
- E-waste handover
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Burning waste is illegal
- Right to safe water
- Reporting contamination
- Groundwater & the CGWA
- Rainwater harvesting
- Wetlands & urban lakes
- Tree-cutting permission
- RWA powers & limits
- PUC certificate
- Vehicle scrappage & end-of-life
- EV subsidies (FAME)
- EV charging & the switch
- Feeding community animals
- Stray-dog rules
- Reporting cruelty
- Filing before the NGT
- Citizen standing (locus)
- Polluter-pays orders
- Environmental clearance (EIA) objections
- Right against climate harm (2024)
- Heatwave & worker protection
- Forest Conservation Amendment 2023
- fuel
- Waste-to-energy & your landfill
- Air pollution as a health emergency
- Odd-even & pollution emergencies
