In March 2020, in response to the spread of Covid-19, the Prime Minister of India declared a three-week nationwide lockdownLockdown. Immediately afterward, economic activitiesEconomic activities were suspended, and people were forced to stay at home. However, in the cities of North India, atmosphericAtmospheric visibility drastically improved, and residents were able to see the Himalayan ridges for the first time in a long while. Through this impressive event, the local populationPopulation became aware of the damaging impactsImpact of economic activitiesEconomic activities on the environmentEnvironment. It was revealed that recent air pollutionAir pollution in North India was due not only to emissions from vehicles and industries but also to the expansion of intensiveIntensive agricultureAgriculture in Northwest India. The Green RevolutionGreen revolution had depleted groundwater and soilSoil nutrition, leading to agricultural residue burning and air pollutionAir pollution in wider regionsRegion. Rice and wheat produced in Punjab are distributed to other statesState through the central government's scheme of Public Distribution SystemPublic distribution system. Rural residents of Assam also indirectly contribute to environmental pollutionPollution by consuming rations from Punjab. While the rations have saved many families below the povertyPoverty line from hungerHunger, their expanded coverage has made more people dependent on them. Consequently, the number of rice farmersFarmers is declining, and the sustainableSustainable productionProduction system is being lost in rural Assam. Northeast IndiaNortheast India is the regionRegion most heavily impacted by the central government's policies. Environmental problemsEnvironmental problems in the twenty-first century are not always caused by economic activitiesEconomic activities in the regionRegion but by the connection with remote regionsRegion through the modern capitalist economy. It is, therefore, necessary to investigate the teleconnection of environmental issues across regionsRegion to achieve the SDGsSustainable Development Goals (SDG).