Legislative Approach of West Bengal in Protecting Environment

Abstract

The environmental crisis is growing every day, but environmental protection initiatives were started over
the last few decades. Every year, many conferences and seminars organized to discuss that crisis and global
sustainable development, but very few efforts have been observed to recognize the need for sustainability.
In recent years, the Government has developed many plans and policies to make legal provisions for
international conventions and protocols. These legal initiatives help to deal with global environmental problems. Due to unsustainable developmental activities, our environment degraded day-by-day, and lots of environmental issues emerged (like global warming, deforestation, soil erosion, increasing toxic waste from industrial units etc.). Our paper mainly tries to emphasize the Government of West Bengal's legislation on protecting our environment. This paper is divided into three sections. Section I deals with global awareness on protection and improvement of environmental resources and how the West Bengal economy implements the developmental programmes without jeopardizing the natural resources. In section II, we describe the legislation of the Government of West Bengal on the protection and improvement of our environment; the last section is for limitations, conclusions, and suggestions. It is observed that the lists of legal provisions appear entirely satisfactory to protect the public interest and provide a better quality of life.