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“The lack of political will in preventing environmental degradation is one of the major challenges that India is experiencing.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 15 marks
  • Social Movements

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Political will means leaders' sustained readiness to act and to bear the political cost of acting. The statement claims that India's degradation comes less from missing laws than from unwillingness to enforce them. The Supreme Court has said as much: in August 2024 Justice Abhay S. Oka lamented that almost all authorities are not functional.

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