SC to hear pollution cases related to Delhi, other cities today
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
India’s escalating air pollution crisis is one of its gravest public health challenges, yet it remains strikingly absent from mainstream cultural narratives.
Within a fortnight, the degree of air pollution in the industrial cities of Durgapur and Asansol have further crossed the pollution levels of the country's highest polluted cities in recent times.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), published by the WHO, indoor air pollution is the second largest killer in India after blood pressure, claiming two lives every minute.
Besides, air pollution ranks among the leading risk factors contributing to the disease burden in most South East Asian countries and India is no exception.
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry to take steps to curb air pollution and negative impacts of climate change in Delhi, Odisha and other states.
With the onset of winter, Asansol's Air Quality Index (AQI) has deteriorated significantly, with air pollution levels reaching alarming levels in recent days.
The leader of the Opposition in the lower house pointed out that the poorest suffer the most being unable to escape the toxic air that surrounds them.
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Reacting to the worsening air quality in Delhi, he said the AAP government is blaming others for its own fault without telling people what steps it has taken to combat pollution.
