SUPREME COURT BANS CRACKERS: JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND IMPACT ON DELHI AIR POLLUTION USING TREND ANALYSIS

One of the prime concerns of all the growing economies around the globe is a environmental hazard. Due to the trends of industrialization and globalization, every economy is facing the challenges of increasing pollutants concentration in their natural environment and India is no exception. The capital of the country is having the worse levels of pollutants in its air making it dangerous for human habitation. This has been further brought into limelight recently towards 2017-year end, when the city experienced worst levels of air pollution, popularly called as the Great Smog of Delhi. All the stakeholders have been taking measures from time to time to control the emissions of pollutants but their effectiveness is still questionable. This paper concentrates on the case study of impact of banning of firecrackers by Supreme Court of India around Diwali period. This is evaluates by using trend analysis technique on last 12 years’ concentration of SO2 , NO2 and PM10 for three major locations of Delhi.