Environmental Factor To grow the economy of the country, the environmental factor has become one of the crucial factors that people need to consider before investing in a particular country or sector. India suffers from numerous environmental problems. Statistics show that India's total pollution in 2012 is 1,240,000,000. The main problems are land degradation, air and water pollution, natural disasters. Land degradation: Due to the development of cities, forest is cleared for housing, agriculture and river projects. In agriculture, high-yielding varieties and chemical fertilizers have caused soil salinity and damage to the physical structure of the soil. Therefore, they cause land degradation and depletion of natural resources. Air Pollution: In an environment survey of 178 countries, India ranked near the bottom in exposure to air pollution. People living in rural areas use inefficient and leaky stoves with biomass, firewood and waste as cooking fuel to support cooking meals. Indoor air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, that are produced are much higher than from coal and regular fuel. Fuel adulteration becomes a common phenomenon in India. Traffic congestion and fuel adulteration cause vehicles to burn fuel inefficiently and exhaust more nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide. Industrial emissions and annual crop fires also contribute to India's poor air quality. Water Pollution: Untreated sewage is the major factor causing water pollution in India. Since India is industrialized, dumping of industrial waste is inevitable. Thousands of small factories contaminate water by discharging its wastes into lakes and...... middle of paper ......ion) Act, National Forestry Action Program (NFAP). Apart from this, India has many mineral resources which include coal, iron ore, manganese ore, mica, bauxite, natural gas, limestone, crude oil, diamonds, petroleum, etc. The total iron ore reserves in the country stand at approximately 14,630 million tonnes of hematite and 10,619 million tonnes of magnetite. Its coal production ranks third in the world. There are significant oil and natural gas reserves in the states of Assam and Gujarat and on the continental shelf off Maharashtra and Gujarat. India also has large reserves of natural apatite, gypsum, limestone and mica. To improve the environment, the Indian government has taken steps to tighten environmental regulations in recent years and is pursuing a major clean energy investment program, primarily through its high-profile Solar Mission project.