Air Pollution: An Unprecedented Problem Air pollution has come to take mammoth proportions and brings associated health problems not just in winters but of late it has become a perennial problem at scale. Rapid urbanization, waste and construction dust, industrialization, power generation activities and other activities with sub-optimal pollution control measures have led to increasing air pollution levels in India. These increasing pollution levels are not just limited to cities but have also reached village at levels not seen before. Health impacts such as cardio-vascular diseases, lower respiratory problems, asthma, lung cancer, dementia and other long term illnesses are now real in India and air pollution has been declared a public health emergency multiple times. The response to the problem has more often been a knee-jerk reaction and there are no long-term solutions in sight. Till date it has been driven by Judiciary, particularly, National Green Tribunal and state