Right to health and vehicular pollution in urban society-with special reference to the motor vehicles act, 1988 Dr. Misra Preeti Deptt. of Human Rights, School for Legal Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India, Email: misra9us@gmail.com Online published on 13 March, 2018. Abstract Urbanization, higher incomes, expanding cities and employment centres have increased the demand for motorized transport, resulting in disproportionately high concentration of vehicles in urban areas. Amongst the various modes of transport, road transport will always remain vital mode as it enables access even to the remotest areas. Indian economy is heavily road dependent accounting for 55% of freight traffic and 80% of passenger traffic. The vehicular emissions consists mainly of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur, partial oxides of aldehyde, particulate matter which have proven to be harmful to human body. Present paper analyses the overall effect of vehicular emissions along with noise pollution spewed out by the vehicles on health of the people living in urban society and adequacy of the existing legal provisions specially under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 to control the same in order to protect the environment not only for the present but also future generation. Top Keywords Pollution, Environmental Jurisprudence, urbanisation, emission. Top |