Delhi recorded the highest per capita income among states in 2014-15, according to the Delhi Statistical Hand Book-2015. Delhi has the highest per capita income of Rs 2,40,849 among all the states during 2014-15. It has increased by Rs 28,630 in comparison to 2013-14, stated the annual report prepared by Delhi government’s Directorate of Economics and Statistics. According to the figures released by the government, Delhi’s per capita income in 2014-15 increased to Rs 2.41 lakh from Rs 2.12 lakh in the previous fiscal, a rise of nearly 13.50 per cent.

As an inescapable concomitant with the traditional route of economic development, Pakistan has been facing natural resource degradation and pollution problems. The unsavory spectacle of air pollution, water contamination and other macro environmental impacts such as water logging, land degradation and desertification, are on rise. All this, in conjunction with rapid growth in population, have been instrumental to the expanding tentacles of poverty.