Who has Major responsibilities for Avoiding pollution and going green..???

Individuals

Its collective responsibility.  Every individual should think in broader perspective in terms of environment protection.  Almost in general people are selfish.  They always think that their work is done, they dont think much about the future generation.  we can say this is partially due to avaialbility of resources for ex. Instead of Plastic covers, if the shoppers give paper bags eg.(Ooty) it prevents pollution. Easiest way to avoid is attack the source point.  Similarly occupying the Road by shopkeepers will narrow the road and result in traffic which in turn result in excess fuel consumption, Stress to the person travelling and it result in chain reaction at office or Home. So Govt. should take steps in making the available resources to reach the common people. Good example : if traffic police or CCTV  is available at signal point every passer respect the signal otherwise as per the wish of the driver.

Dharmendra Vietnam

Yes Mridula you are right. In India i think people are not follows rules which government sets.There are many examples which tells goverment sets the rule and people breaks it so finally results remains same(Pollution).

So its our first whole and sole responsibity to follow rules and government should take strict action on those guys who breaks the rule.

Yes. GO GREEN is good. But, it primarily depends on the economy dispersion of the state. Who owns what and who is responsible for what ?

 Adding on April 20th..

Please note : China is a communist country and every decision is taken by the Government which owns it. So, it is the government which is responsible. 

Dear Deepak and Virender,

Should every one be a train driver or pilot or doctor or x y z. the answer is NO.

Similarly when it comes to responsibility each has to carry their respective size of share or slice of responsibility pie. The share in Pie is determined by each one's level of stake, power to intervention and so on so the best of INDIVIDUAL SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY may not be able to match the might of Government if stacked against. 

So while each one has a role the share of role if clearly defined and better designed can be the only way to expect any results.  Else we shall be left forever talking only....

Government can only become a facilitator and a regulator but ultimately it is the duty of individuals and specifically i mean fundamental duty to reduce pollution by taking various short term measures and every day life style changes by individuals.We can only expect Government to make stricter laws and norms and enforce it in real sense.

Yes I think People are more responsible for this. We are innovating technology & lots of things for our easy life but we don't think what will be effect in future.

Sampanna a good debate, I too support Mridula. It is we the individuals are responsible to reduce the pollution. The government should make policies and procedures. Whereas the NGOs and individuals should implement voluntarily such things and also bring a change in the persons whom we know. Today being a world earth day, through the world people have decided to dark from 8.30 to 9.30 pm on a voluntary basis. Such causes should be given more propaganda which saves the earth. I further suggest that we the working class should bring a change in our organizations in switching off equipments like lights, computers, monitors, printers, ACs whenever not required which not only saves the power consumption of the organisation and also saves the earth

Obviously the indvidual himself to begin with and forever always whatsoever...conciousness, eticate, thoughtfullness & of course awarness begins at home & hopefully transpired into the outer world thereafter...

Definitely, it’s our responsibilities to reduce the pollution.

Moreover the government can implement the rule in the morning and we will break it at night or they plan greenery in night till morning we definitely………

Government will make the rules and people follows but is the government going to take very strict action against them. whatever will be the plan or strategy it wont succeed until and unless we individual takes one step ahead to reduce pollution and save the planet. Yes to go green a support a required but if the feeling doesn't come towards the environment nothing can be done. So we all individual should take the initiative rather then saying "Pehle aap" other the way Mr. Mirza missed the train we ll b on the same place and ultimately nothing will be done for the same. 

An individual's efforts will be having a bigger impact since it is at the individual level that the final use of the earth's resources ends. Nonetheless the govt. has its role to play like those suggested by many of the comments here, and in ways like introducing env-friendly policies like subsidizing power generation thru solar energy, from sugar molasses etc. 

But the contribution of the individual will be the greatest if he/she decides to do so.

The point put forward by Sampana is right in indicating that most people wont be contributing towards avoiding pollution coz of their "I don't care" attitude or simply lack of awareness and thus have to be forced by the government, but as far as the topic goes the bigger responsibility does lie with the individual.

every person always think about him/her self they can't fear about anybody they do only that ,what thaey want to do. Some times they break the laws of the governmaent. That's why this pollution problem is not solved by the govt. This is only solved by the public.

I think its the self realization of the learned and cultured Individuals , and possibly

again their duty to educate people who are unaware of this, however the government

policies also matter as " some humans get cultured and sensitive for such matter

under a stick only"

While the government DOES have responsibilities, the individual can contribute more because of the sheer numbers in this country.

As a classic example, let us consider what will happen if we all, at least to begin with, recycle plastic bags when we go grocery shopping. The demand for them will drastically drop. These bags of various sizes are clogging everything from residential drains, stormwater drains, sewage and even rivers and cannals. They are also affecting the land fill siutes considerably. They can be seen all over the place.

So given the number of us who go shopping, if we switch to recyclable materials - go green - that itself will be a phenomenal contribution. 

Yes the individual can do more. it is not the power of one but actually the power of many and has the ability to solve the problem of pollution.

Government are for making rules but it is our responsibility to follow those rules. This is our planet and we have to take steps to save this from pollution. If every individual will do something regarding this the pollution level itself decreases and hence we save a lot of money of government which is used for the development of some other necessary things.

This is the time of stop blaming government and doing something at our level also after all this is our life our environment and it is every one duty to save this.

The government is only a policy maker. It is we who has to follow and bring change. So it has to start within ourselves to follow the rules and ensure some other to follow.

offcourse its individual persons responsibility to avoid pollution...government can only bring some laws or new green equipments but if individuals are not motivated enough to avoid pollution how can government will be successfull..and the matter of fact is that government is not a machine government is also run by individual only ..in both ways individuals should motivated towards reducing pollution and going green....

I think every pollution created by society & persons are responsible for problems.avoiding pollution resposbility is also created by them so persons are responsbile for it. 

Yes, I believe its the individuals responsibility.if everyone takes the initiative about the go green concept then we can make a huge difference to the society and to the environment.

Obviously its each individuals responsibility. Indian common man have washed his hands everytime some disaster arises, on government. Sure government does its own but the same govt is not gonna individually come & put your ignition off on signals or while u r having a chat with ur car engine on. Small steps can lead to higher gains but these so called sophisticated power brains fail to understand simple steps to ecological living. The rickshaw unions, BEST union should train their drivers towards fuel saving, non-wastage etc. Here we are debating about pollution and lakhs of trees are cut every other day. Why one should travel in a car for small distance shopping etc. Its infuriating. Instead of cycling in a AC packed gym why not sweat out on a bicycle. Japan has been following this trend and its reaping benefits. A society is made of individuals and if each individual cares for the cause ultimately society follows.  

As Mridula said, its the responsibility of every citizen to control pollution and go green.. our political scenario is like that we individuals should make the government to focus on this.

It is the resposibility of citizens to draw the attention of government to reduce or avoid pollution level in country. Goverment is a resultant of citizen nor the vice-versa, so the main responsibilty lies in the hand of individuals.

If citizens take the initialte to go green they government will be forced to walk with the citizen.