India Tops The World In Bad Air Quality

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    • Publish Date: May 2 2018 1:06PM
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    • Updated Date: May 2 2018 1:06PM
India Tops The World In Bad Air Quality

 n alarming news, the WHO global air pollution database has revealed that India has 14 out of the 15 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM 2.5 concentrations. 

As an indicator of why this constitutes a major public health emergency, consider that WHO has further pointed to air pollution being a main cause of non-communicable diseases, causing around 24% of all adult deaths from heart disease, 25% from stroke, 43% from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and 25% from lung cancer.

Damage to quality of life, ranging from school and work days lost to tourism and other businesses hurt, is incalculable.

Centre and state governments must respond to this data in meaningful ways, ensuring stringent action to comply with clean air standards – in all cities, particularly the ones on this dismaying list, topped by Kanpur followed by Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur, Srinagar, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Patiala and Jodhpur.

The data also reflects that monitoring in Indian cities has improved. Similar improvement in the villages may reveal a similarly alarming trend there as well.

China is a study in contrast. It is reporting improvements in air quality thanks to focused policies combined with strict nationwide enforcement, including source-wise action to reduce emissions. 

In India too there are positive signs like the ongoing shift to BS-VI fuel, the narrowing gap between petrol and diesel prices, and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Scheme for expanding LPG connections. But what the WHO has highlighted is the enormity of the problem, and how it’s growing faster than the patchy fixes.

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Tanishka KHAITAN PUBLIC SCHOOL(NOIDA SEC_40)

thats really awful! we see our country at the top once for a change and it turns out to be the worst air quality index? where are we heading to people! apart from various diseases it has led to Damage to quality of life, ranging from school and work days lost to tourism and other businesses hurt, is incalculable. we need to patch before this starts taking toll on our country''s development. and if we need to learn from countries like china for that, we surely should

Sandhya Srinivas TRIVENI PUBLIC SCHOOL

This is a really bad news but it''s the truth. We are the people who are polluting our motherland and this is ofcourse unbearable and awful.The air has done bad of many humans in our country.People have been suffering many diseases now and then .We should stop polluting.India being top 1 in this is awful and shameful.

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