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To protect and improve the environment is a constitutional mandate. It is the commitment for a country wedded to the ideas of a welfare State. The Indian constitution contains specific provisions for environmental protection under the chapters of Directive Principles of the State Policy and Fundamental Duties. Keeping this in view, the Parliament of India has passed specific legislations, which are the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to meet certain international obligations and also to improve the quality of national environment. The absence of any specific provision in the Constitution recognising the fundamental right to (clean and wholesome) environment has been set off by judicial activism in the recent times.