Liberalising pollution
Air pollution is one of the direct results of economic growth. With the introduction of economic reforms in 1991 in India, there has been a substantial degree of liberalisation in the car industry. Industrial growth in the country seems somewhat expensive when the tremendous costs to public health due to air pollution in urban India are calculated. Between 1975 and 1995, while the Indian economy grew by 2.63 times, industrial pollution grew by 3.47 times and vehicular pollution by a whopping 7.5 times (see