This research paper is focused on the study of the effectiveness of environmental laws for environmental protection in India. The environmental awareness needs to be cultivated in any society to be an ideal society, or rather to be more precise, in other words, an ideal society means, and the society which has the environmental awareness. There is no dearth of legislation on environmental protection in India but their enforcement has not been satisfactory. There is a need for the effective and efficient enforcement of the Constitutional mandate and other environmental legislation. Although numerous legislative steps have been taken to give effect to the significant right of man to live in a sound environment and the corresponding duty on state and individuals to ensure environment preservation and conservation, our endeavor, in this study, is to analyze the environmental law in India. Pursuant to the Constitutional provisions contained in Articles 48A and 51A (h), many Public Interest Litigations have been instituted in the Supreme Court of India against many industries for failing to provide adequate pollution control. Forests are diminishing at an alarming rate, landmasses are getting eroded, the climate in different parts of the world is undergoing a change due to global warming and clean air and water are increasingly becoming rare commodities. Poor sanitation conditions and sewage problems compound the problem affecting the health of ordinary citizens in India. The reasons for these disconnections between enlightened environmental laws and high levels of pollution could be traced to lax enforcement of existing environmental laws, discrepancies in the environmental guidelines for businesses to follow between the central government and at the state levels.