Right to Wholesome Environment

As we’re advancing towards a better and developed future, we are leaving behind the most important thing that started all of this in the first place- “The Environment”. Right to a wholesome environment is a very basic right and a very important right. Everything is just meaningless without life, and the environment preserves life. Our reason for choosing this topic was, in our everyday life we come across many problems, and we work on them, but we forget about the air we breathe, and how it is degraded every day as deforestation rates rise, we forget about the sky we see and the ozone hole caused by the CFC’s from our refrigerators and air conditioners. It is human tendency to overlook something unless it becomes a blunder. The same is happening with the environment. However, there are steps taken by the Government like the “Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan” or the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act, 1957 and the Environment(Protection) Act, 1986, which made river sand mining illegal. Still, the environment is harmed every day