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.
A total of 28 departments are working together against pollution in Delhi, to ensure strict implementation of GRAP 2.
The Haryana government claimed reduced incidence of stubble burning in the state this year as compared to the previous year.
The Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP is categorized into four stages – Stage I, Stage II, Stage III and IV.
Have you ever thought that air pollution is something that's not affecting you directly? Then you need to take a look at what the WHO report says.
During the plan's unveiling at a press conference here, Kejriwal mentioned that there has been a slight improvement in the air quality in the national capital.
