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.

About:

  • 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