PEOPLES’ RIGHT TO POLLUTION FREE AIR IN INDIA

Exercise and enjoyment of freedoms help us to develop our intrinsic qualities, intelligence, talents and conscience to meet our material and spiritual needs. It is needless to state that without the recognition of the right to health, education, realization of the right to development of every human being and nation is not possible.[1] Natural resources such as air, water, and land are fundamental to all life forms: they are, much more than money and economic infrastructure, the base of our survival. The unpolluted, pure air is a source of good health, happiness and long life. Air pollution is one such form that refers to the contamination of the air, irrespective of indoors or outside. Air pollution started to become a problem for human beings with the industrial revolution.[2] Too much air pollution can make anyone's life a living hell. Some air pollutants are also passive in their toxicity but their actions result in environmental changes by affecting the atmosphere, causing temperature rise, penetrating ultra-violet rays into the lower levels of stratosphere and depleting of the ozone layer.[3] Industries are responsible to a great extent for the drastic atmospheric changes induced by pollutants like carbons, halons and nitrous oxide let into the air.[4] Depletion of ozone, the gas that absorbs much of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun adversely affects not only human beings, but also animals and plants. Increased penetration of solar UV-B radiation is likely to have a profound impact on human health with potential risks of eye diseases, skin cancer and infectious diseases.[5] Noise is also a form of air pollution.Noise pollution refers to the disturbing sound that means an excessive, offensive, persistent