Challenges in Implementing Environmental Laws and Policies in India

This study explores the implementation challenges of environmental laws and policies in India. It reveals the difficulties and problems associated with breaking environmental laws and regulations in India. This study's primary goal is to list the several obstacles India must overcome in order to put environmental laws and policies into effect. A review of the literature of this study provides other points and topics that are aimed to be discussed. The importance of maintaining rules, issues for violating the rules, challenges faced during implementation, and strategies that may help mitigate the problems are discussed. Some theories may help to solve the issues. People are surveyed using the primary data collecting approach in order to obtain general data. Primary data is gathered from non-manipulable sources that do not exist. The data was analysed using the primary quantitative research approach. The secondary data were gathered from various books, newspapers, journals, and articles on Google Scholar. Thirteen questions and fifty-five surveys to gather people's opinions have been analysed using the SPSS program. A thorough explanation is dotted with statistical data. The difficulties encountered, parallels and divergences between the findings and the literature study are discussed. Demand for natural resources and food supplies is another effect of overpopulation. Humans must use natural resources in order to satisfy their needs. Amidst all of this, it is also evident that regulations and limits are ineffective because individuals are not abiding by them. Ultimately, it may be said that corruption, overpopulation, ignorance, and poor education are the key reasons for India's difficulties in implementing environmental laws and policies.


Introduction
Environmental protection now falls under fundamental law in India.Every person's right to live in a pollution-free environment is safeguarded under the Indian constitution.Even if they are sound, it may need much labour to execute and enforce rules and regulations.The sustainability of the Earth is in danger due to the irresponsible use of the environment by humans.Hence, environmental preservation is essential.Because of this, every country makes laws and regulations in addition to guidelines to preserve their unique national settings.In dia's ecological policies encompass a range of laws and results to make the environment sustainable for future generations (Bhuvaneshwari   et al., 2019). 1 Article 51-A requires everyone to preserve and enhance the environment's many natural resources, such as lakes, rivers, woods, and wildlife.It is also necessary to consider all living organisms in the natural environment.India is already facing issues related to the environment due to different issues in managing resources.The rough use of natural resources and non-renewable resources is creating an impact on future energy resources.As per the points of Malav et al. (2020), 2 the policies related to the Nature Conservation Act are not being followed by the people and therefore, issues are being created.According to a survey, the most crucial issue is air pollution, which has been mentioned by 50 percent of the people.Global warming and the issue related to climate change and its third impact are seen by 48% of the people.Overpopulation and their use of resources are also significant issues that have been mentioned by 39% of the people (statista.com,2023). 3Matters related to deforestation, issues of drinking water, manageable wastage products, and flooding issues are also being found as issues in nature.It is true that some people might not be as concerned about the future consequences that could affect the environment and their sustainability.There could be a number of reasons for this, including ignorance, the need to attend to urgent matters first, or the conviction that small actions won't make a big difference.
It's crucial to remember, though, that there are a large number of people, groups, and communities throughout the world who have a solid commitment to sustainability and are actively trying to lessen the effects of climate change and other environmental problems.They are aware that the decisions we make now could have a significant effect on the planet in the future.These are creating a significant impact on nature, and therefore, citizens must strictly follow policies to ensure a sustainable life for the future and the next generation.The main objective of the research is to identify the different issues that have come up in India as a result of the application of environmental laws and regulations.

The Research's Objectives Include RO1
To know the importance of different environmental laws and policies that the Indian Government makes to conserve nature.

RO2
To find the challenges faced in India in maintaining and regulating the rules and issues related to environmental policies.

RO3
To find the negative impact of the challenges facing implementing the rules and regulations related to the environment in India.

RO4
To make strategies that may help mitigate the issues and challenges faced when implementing the rules and regulations of the environment in India.

The Questions of this Research are Stated Below RQ1
What is the importance of different environmental laws and policies made by the Indian Government for conserving nature?

RQ2
What are the challenges faced in India in maintaining and regulating the rules and issues related to the environment?

RQ3
What are the negative impacts of the challenges facing implementing the rules and regulations related to the environment in India?

RQ4
What strategies may help mitigate the issues and challenges faced when implementing the rules and regulations of the environment in India?

The Hypothesis of the Research is H 1
There are many challenges to implementing different environmental laws and programmes in India.

H 0
There is no challenge to implementing different environmental laws and programmes in India.
Environmental laws and regulations in India are too strong, but there is very little obedience from the people.A court handles and deals with different types of environmental cases.As per the Environmental Performance Index, India is high in pollution globally (Sharma et al., 2020). 4Different types of laws related to the environment face different types of challenges to implementation.As per the rapid and high industrialisation, increment in population with high index, deforestation, lack of knowledge and education among the people about the environment, it is being faced with issues for implementing the rules of the environment.Therefore, natural resources have been decreasing at a terrifying rate, creating a significant issue.
One of the main reasons for implementing the rules is related to the environment.Due to excessive interference of the Government, no power to work freely is also a reason for facing issues with the implementation of the environmental rules.Lack of awareness among people and education about laws and increasing demand for industrialisation are the main reasons for facing issues in implementing environmental policies in India (Zhang et al., 2020). 5his study will focus on the issues that are faced with the implementation of environmental laws in India.This research will be helpful to know the issues and, as per the issues, strategies should be taken by the people in a significant way.Therefore, the issues for implementation of environmental laws will be helpful.Environmental laws and policies are made to maintain air, water, forests, and other natural resources.Humans depend on natural resources to sustain their lives; however, using them carelessly endangers their lives.As per the insights of Gupta, Soni, and Kumar (2019), 6 negligence of rules and policies to maintain the balance of natural resources may create outstanding issues for people.On the other hand, disobeying the rules, laws, and policies related to the environment may cause punishments like fines and jail time (Farooq et al., 2019). 7Environmental laws and policies are the only treatment steps for people using the environment poorly.

The Challenges of Putting India's Environmental Rules and Policies into Practice
The main challenge faced when implementing the environmental laws in India is related to poor coordination among the Government agencies.As per the views of Manda & Ben Dhaou (2019), 8 the capacity of the institutions is also poor, and their instruments, technologies, and arrangements are also not managed by the government.
Corruption among the high designation ministers is also an issue.Industrialists are not maintaining the rules for their business, and they are not getting punished for violating environmental laws.On the other hand, it can be said critically that lack of awareness and education among people and the demand for money are also creating issues for implementing laws (Campos & Reich, 2019). 9People are not thinking about the near future; they are only thinking about the present.The main issues in India are the lack of money and not being afraid or lack of education to know what is waiting in the future.

The Negative Impact of the Challenges for the Implementation of Environmental Laws
As issues with implementing environmental policies are faced, a list of issues is being created in India.The most critical issue that is being created is air pollution, and it has been seen that India is the third largest country, contributing 2.65 billion metric tons of carbon into the air.As per the views of Abalansa et al. (2021), 10 around the earth, air and water have been polluted to such a level that 70% of the surfacelevel water is unfit for consumption.The weather balance has also been devised.Too much heat in

Strategies May Help Mitigate the Laws and Rules or Policies Related to the Environment
The government should be stricter, and there should not be any corruption to allow for the immediacy of rules.As per the insights, the government should take steps that violate the environment's rules and policies.People should be provided with more environmental education so they can also participate in this mission (earth.org,2023). 12Workshops and programs should be done to make people more aware of the future of the next generation.People should understand the root causes of natural devastation.On the other hand, people should be supportive of managing the issues, and industrialists must decrease their lust for money, which is the leading cause of all types of pollution (Bhuvaneshwari  et al., 2019). 13llution control boards should be stricter to manage the total situation properly.Maintenance of rules and regulations and punishment for the people violating the rules may help implement the environmental rules.Schools and colleges should provide proper education to help students become more aware of nature (Sharma & Das, 2020). 14Rewards and benefits should be given with the help of NGOs.
Ultimately, the tree plantation program should be done at any cost and introduced into the people's ordinary lives.

Theoretical Framework
Norm Activation Model "The Norm Activation Model" was derived by Schwartz (1977)15 and was helpful for the identification of the drivers that may influence the human intention for nature.It can be defined as social behaviour that can create an impact on others.Personal behaviour has a great help in reducing the destructive performance and effects on the natural system that is shared in multiple shares of behaviours (Meng et al., 2020). 16ith the help of this model, people should become softer with the environment, which should help make the planet more sustainable.

Theory of Environmentally Response Behaviour
The authors of the ERB theory are Hines, Tomera, and Hungerford (1987). 17As per this theory, one cannot take responsibility for the environment.It is the total work of the people to maintain the environment.Knowledge of the rules and regulations of the environment can help others to know about them.Being influenced by their act, some others may be desired to act as this may help to implement the laws and results related to the environment (Wang et al., 2020). 18

Methodology
In the methodology, the primary quantitative research method is used with the help of fifty-five surveys to get unbiased results.The positivist philosophy of the resource has been used in the present research to get the scientific analysis of collected data.
On the other hand, the challenges faced by the people in implementing the challenges at the time of environmental rules in India are asked of different officers, people, and agencies related to environmental conservation (Villanthenkodath & Mahalik, 2022). 19The deductive research approach was employed in this study, relying on theoretical frameworks that have significant connections to this resource.This approach can help test the knowledge of the policies that are gathered to conclude.It is also helpful to mitigate the gaps in the research that have been faced before.Some hypotheses have to be  The primary data collection method is followed to gather general data from people.Primary data is collected from the non-existence of sources that cannot be manipulated.These thirteen questions were asked to the officers, people and the agencies' departments related to India's environmental policies.In this study, SPSS was done with data collected from different people.This present analysis includes frequency analysis and linear regression analysis, including the model summary analysis, ANOVA test, and coefficient test.The Pearson correlation test is an excellent help in providing information about the relationship between different variables needed for this research.
During the whole research process, the researcher maintained the process of the stretch needed for the research.No people were forced to give their opinion for this survey (Rajamani & Peel, 2021). 21There was no manipulation done to make their opinion biased.This was done to maintain the unbiasedness of the data.The secondary data resources used for this research are appropriately cited.The verification of the secondary data resources has not been done.
The secondary data were gathered from various books, newspapers, journals, and articles on Google Scholar.
All the authors' copyrights are conserved in this study.

Finding and analysis Demographic Analysis Age
Fig. 8: Age Group participants (Source: IBM SPSS) The respondents to the survey belonged to different age groups.The total respondents have been divided into four distinct age groups.The respondents between the ages of 30 and 36 were 18.2%, and The age categories of 49 to 55 and 37 to 42 accounted for the largest percentage of responders (36.4%). of the responders, just 9.1% were between the ages of 43 and 48.The respondents of different age groups helped to determine the most influential factors that impacted the research topic.The experiences of the different age groups vary, and they answered the survey questions based on their knowledge.

Gender
Respondents were from different genders, and all were interested in joining in the survey processes.
Female and other respondents were the maximum, and they were 36.4% each.Males were only 27.3%.This demarcates that the male and female were the survey participants, which helps to get adequate knowledge about the research topic.The educational qualification of the respondents represents their academic qualifications and theoretical knowledge.The respondents were from different educational backgrounds; 27.27% were graduates, and higher secondary passed respondents were 18.18%.The percentage of the respondents who passed the matriculation degree was 36.36%, and the postgraduate respondents were 18.18%.The respondents from different educational backgrounds adequately answer all the questions.This increases the realities of the research work as people from different educational strata have different experience levels.

Statistical analysis Descriptive Analysis
Qualitative (Descriptive) analysis of this research helps to compare and correlate the relation between the different IVs and DV.This demarcates the standard error similar for all IVs and DV of the research.This helps to represent the Skewness and Kurtosis analysis report.The impact of various DV and IVs on the research topic is ascertained with the aid of this descriptive analysis.SUNDAR, Curr.World Environ., Vol.18(3) 1249-1264 (2023) Hypothesis 1  The significant value of the regression analysis of the variables in Hypothesis 1 is displayed in the table above.Given that this indicates a positive link between the variables in this hypothesis, the significance value should be less than 0.005.This hypothesis has a significant value of 0, which is perfect.The relationship between the variables in this hypothesis is shown in the above table.Understanding the relationship status of the many variables in this hypothesis is made easier with the use of regression analysis.The regression's significance value of 0 indicates that there is a strong correlation between the hypothesis's independent and dependent variables.

Hypothesis 2
Hypothesis 3 Another issue is that the government interferes too much with autonomous agencies that want to conserve nature.This also impacts the reformation of nature, which is being affected.

Conclusion
Thus, it can be concluded that many challenges hamper the implementation of environmental policies in India.Lack of awareness about the environment and lack of education among people are the main reasons they affect and create challenges in implementing environmental policy.Most people in India do not have an awareness of the environment.
Issues also make challenges, such as the interference of the Government, lack of freedom to do work, and lack of punishment for violation of rules; corruption is also the main challenge responsible implementing the environmental rules and laws and regulations in India.Overpopulation is another factor affecting the conservation of laws and environmental policies.Overcrowdedness also causes a demand for food supplies and natural resources.People have to use natural resources to meet their demands.During all of this, it is also being seen that the restrictions and the laws are not working as those are not followed by the people.The people are not aware of the planet's sustainability to live long.Lust for industrialisation and the people to make more money in short ways also creates violations of the people's rules.All these causes are the main challenges faced at the time of implementation of the policies and rules in India related to the environment.

Fig. 3 :
Fig. 3: Reasons for facing issues in the implementation of environmental policies and laws in India (Source: Campos & Reich, 2019)

Fig. 6 :
Fig. 6: Theory of environmentally Response Behavior (Source: Wang et al. 2020) proved at the end of this research, the hypotheses are tested, and at the end of this research, the results are collected, and questions are made.A descriptive research design helps understand the phenomena that are useful for the study of the whole research(Bhuvaneshwari et al., 2019).20

Fig. 9 :
Fig. 9: Gender of participants in the online survey (Source: IBM SPSS)

Table 7 : Analysis of regression for Hypothesis 3 Synopsis of the Model b
The table above of correlation demarcates the relation between allIVs and DV of the research.It represents the correlation value of the IVs and DV for their interrelated relation.The higher correlation value is defined as a good indicator and represents the positive relation among the different variables of this research.Maximum correlation values are near 1, a good sign of the research.Correlation values are essential as they represent the dependency of all the variables on others.