Order

This writ petition was filed in 1985. More than a decree has gone by. Various aspects for improvement of environment were highlighted in the petition including the one relating to proper management and control of traffic in the National Capital Region and the National Capital Territory of Delhi with a view to ensure adequate safeguards necessary for public safety. Besides this, vehicular pollution was also highlighted and the need for remedial steps convassed to take care of the chaotic traffic conditions which have given rise to road accidents resulting in death and bodily injury to the citizens. To control vehicular pollution and protect environment is primarily the function of the executive. It is their obligation to devise suitable measures and provide machinery for rigid enforcement of such measures as are necessary to curb the menace of chaotic traffic conditions and vehicular pollution with a view to ensure the welfare of general public. The inaction on the part of the executive, however, impelled this Court to issue certain directions from time to time in this writ petition, but precious little appears to have been done despite those directions. Before we consider the