Unhappy with the steps taken by the Centre and the state governments of Delhi, Haryana and Punjab to improve air quality in the National Capital Region (NCR), the Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up their officials and said “bureaucracy has developed an inertia,” leading to “a policy paralysis.” It, however, observed that it doesn’t want … Read more
Delhi’s average life expectancy is 6.4 years lower than 69.4 — the national average. (Reuters/File) The World Health Organization’s message while updating its air quality guidelines (AQGs) last month was stark: impact of air quality on public health was twice as bad as estimated previously. Despite lax standards, India is home to 37 of the … Read more
Improving air quality of an area is dependent on a host of factors including tackling pollution at source, cleaning cities, mitigating the bad conditions of roads, boosting public transport and taking afforestation drives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new air pollution norms, substantially bringing down the permissible air emissions for an area to … Read more
The theme for 2021 was ‘Healthy Air, Healthy Planet’. International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies: A first of its kind campaign began virtually in the state of Maharashtra on Tuesday. During the virtual campaign, citizens as well civil society organisations across the state asked urban local authorities to issue mandatory public health advisories … Read more
While Nagpur and Thane registered an increase of about 18 and 17 percent rise in the PM 10 levels in comparison to the 2017 levels respectively, the state capital Mumbai’s PM 10 emissions remained the same. In a setback to the fight against air pollution, nine of the 18 cities of Maharashtra which are part … Read more