AIR POLLUTION IN DELHI

Oct. 30, 2018

According to a report by Climate Trends, an Indian group working on environmental issues, Delhi tops the list of bad air quality nationally.

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As per figures compiled and released earlier this year by the World Health Organization (WHO), Fourteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India.
Climate Trends, an Indian group working on environmental issues picked up the same 14 cities to analyse the CPCB data in summer and winter months for a comparative analysis.

Key findings:

Delhi tops the List of bad air quality nationally.
Most cities, unlike Delhi do not have an emergency response plan to tackle air pollution.
Apart from Delhi, in most cities the online monitoring of Air Pollution was happening with less than 4 monitoring stations and Srinagar had none. Delhi has close to 40 monitoring stations that display data online every day.
India faces the highest air pollution-related mortality and disease burden in the world with more than 2 million deaths occurring prematurely every year, accounting for 25% of the global deaths due to poor air quality.

Source : The Hindu