THE 1974 ACT PRESCRIBING IMPRISONMENT REPLACED WITH THE FINANCIAL PENALTIES IS WORKING AGAINST THE HUMANS SERVICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF THE CLEAN INDIA GREEN INDIA MOVEMENT.

Criminal laws related to environmental amendments and prescribed imprisonment of up to six years for FCA -1980 and also water pollution violations are now being replaced with the financial penalties of rupee 10000 / to fifteen lakh as per the decision of Punjab Government where in the amended acts grant the central Government the authority to appoint adjudicating officers to set penalties, which will be deposited into the Environment protection fund and it is very clear from the amendment issued that the amended act seeks to take away most of the existing powers of the state to run the operation of state pollution control Boards and is also against the principles of federalism. The said law is not in favor of the general public as acting against the clean India, green India movement of the Prime Minister of India where in the criminal offence would be shifted to financial penalties only instead of the old law and Act prescribed for the imprisonment against the defaulters and would definitely ruin the environmental behavior of the country under such condition of the changes made in the law and Act protecting the environmental behavior of the states and improving the green corridor as well as efforts to combat water pollution.