TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF FIGURES 2
INTRODUCTION 3
BACKDROP OF THE ISSUE 3
SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS 4
GOVERNMENT’S INITITATIVES 5
NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL 5
LATEST STEPS TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT 6
OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT 8
RESEARCH PROBLEM 9
PRIMARY STEPS 9
Exploratory Research: 9
Sampling and Segmentation: 9
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 10
DATA SOURCE SPECIFICATION 11
DATA ANALYSIS 11
RESULTS & RECOMMENDATIONS 12
REFERENCES 13
APPENDIX 14

TABLE OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1 INCREASED TRAFFIC ON THE ROADS 3
FIGURE 2 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AFFECTING THE SOCIETY 4
FIGURE 3 CONTROL OF TRAFFIC AND POLLUTION INITIATION 7
FIGURE 4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR THIS PROBLEM 10

INTRODUCTION

BACKDROP OF THE ISSUE

The environmental air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region is mainly caused by industry and vehicular traffic. Around 10,000 people in Delhi may die prematurely due to the pollution in the air they are living in. Recently taking into consideration this issue, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), banned all diesel vehicles over 10 years old from running on the roads of this region.
As the economic prosperity increases in these area and increase in disposable income leading to urbanization, the number of motor vehicles have increased too much which has led to easy and unprecedented mobility to the citizens. The number of motor vehicles in India has been increasing at around 7% per annum for the past 10 years. This increase in the vehicles and its concentration, mostly the cars, has led to led to traffic congestion and severe problems of air pollution.
Now since the pollution is caused by various sources, an integrated approach to this issue is required to be implemented. All these sources of pollution have to be studied altogether so that we can prevent a widespread damage.
Although there has been many announcements of stricter