Q.Name India's principal domestic legal framework for environmental protection, and one specialised judicial body established to enforce it.

Environmental policy needs both a governing law and a body to actually enforce it — India has established both at the domestic level.

India's principal domestic legal framework for environmental protection is the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 — an umbrella law that gives the central government wide powers to take measures for protecting and improving environmental quality, and to regulate industrial and other activities that pollute the environment.

To enforce environmental law effectively, India also established the National Green Tribunal (NGT) — a specialised judicial body created for the speedy and effective disposal of cases relating to environmental protection, conservation of forests and other natural resources, and the enforcement of legal rights connected with the environment. …

Confusing the Environment (Protection) Act with a court/tribunal — the Act is the LAW providing regulatory powers, while the NGT is the s …