An economic relationship between air quality and gdp of india with special reference to ekc

Over years, changes in government policies like privatization, liberalisation and globalization has given a boost and opportunity to economy to work freely. As an outcome, economy twitches growing at faster speed. But these reforms had created a tremendous pressure on environment resources like forest, land, water and air. These vicissitudes have made the arcade too competitive that nobody has time to think about the public properties such as environment. In recent decades, undesirable environment changes such as global warming, Green House Gas (GHGs) emissions have raised worldwide concerns. In order to achieve higher growth rate, environmental problems emerged from economic activities have turned into a controversial issue. The worsening of environment instigates to have direct impact on the quality of human life. The aim of this study is to investigate an existence of any relationship between Foreign Direct Investment, Population Density and State Gross Domestic Product on Environmental degradation as hypothesised by Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). For this purpose, the Time Series data over the period (2010-2016) from the World Development Indicator has been taken. The paper clinches with some policy replications; the policy aimed at overall development should certainly include efforts to control carbon emissions and to improve environment quality. To sum up, there is an urgent need to control deleterious pollutants, conserve and protect natural resources and the environment for healthy human beings.