摘要：This study attempts to examine the nature and causes of environmental degradation on account of developmental programmes specially industrial activities. The SIPCOT Industrial Complex viz Narasingapuram, Navalpur and Puliyankannu of Ranipet, Vellore district have been selected for the present study of Air pollution and its impact on environment and to the residents of that region. The identified reasons, causes, effects and consequences of environmental degradation are correlated with the socio-economic status of the respondents and thereby an analytical orientation to this study is attempted. Thus this study is partly exploratory in nature and partly analytical in nature. The survey of 10 per cent households from each village are selected for the present study. In total 524 households are surveyed from the three villages. The data collection was done in the month of December 2008. The collected data are classified and tabulated with the help of computer programming, and cross tabulation on the basis of putting socio-economic variables with dependent variables. Chi-square test is applied to test the hypothesis particularly to study the difference between socio-economic status and respondents’ views, perceptions, realization to air pollution with reference to environmental degradation. The suitable simple statistical techniques was adopted to illustrate the results of analysis and suitable recommendations are given according to the findings.
关键词：Environmental degradation; SIPCOT; Air pollution and Ranipet
