Economic Growth in India : A Critical Analysis with Special Emphasis on Energy Consumption and Environment Degradation

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the decline in environmental quality in India is due to high energy consumption? If so, what effect does excessive economic growth rates have on energy consumption in the country? The higher energy consumption is a resultant of rapid economic growth creating scope for large demand which is caused by industrialization and growth in international trade related to industrial goods The study has been conducted to find whenever an emerging economy produces higher growth rates does it really cause more energy consumption leading to environmental degradation using threshold regression analysis. The other significant area of research is that as India poses higher economic growth rates, the higher would be the energy consumption levels leading to environmental imbalances.