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.
Air pollution is currently the most important environmental health risk factor in Europe, the European Union (EU) environment agency has warned in a report published.
All eyes on IMD's forecast for light rain on November 27
Expressing hope, Rai said, if similar measures will be taken in all states across north India, the impact will be visible in Delhi."
The country's capital has become a carbon camber and people are gasping for fresh air, on Friday a layer of haze has covered the city completely, and the air quality was recorded in the 'severe' category in several parts of Delhi.
Nothing concrete after the implementation of CNG in Delhi and construction of a maze of flyovers since then, has been attempted, Saxena alleged.
