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Keeping environment neat & green, How?
Kashmir Times. Dated: 5/27/2016 10:48:11 PM
Dear editor.
The new Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database upto 2016 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveals that Delhi has arrested and improved air quality since the last global database published in 2014. The WHO has released data on levels of particulate matter in 3,000 urban areas in 103 countries highlighting that air pollution is responsible for more than three million premature deaths world wide every year.
It revealed further that pollution level in several other Indian cities have worsened. Patna, Allahabad, Gwalior and Kanpur have become more polluted thus air pollution is reportedly now a national crisis and needs strict and aggressive nationwide action across all cities of India. Globally, more cities in the world have become pollute in violation of WHO guidelines, supreme court directives have imposed environment compensation charge on entry of each touch into Delhi and restricted entry of pre-2006 trucks. Besides, odd even formula too has helped reducing air pollution in Delhi.
Rajghat coal-based power plant was shut down last year and Badarpur power plant is operating at 30 percent of its capacity similar kinds of steps are required to be taken in other urban areas in order to reduce air pollution in the country as rural areas are almost pollution free. Made race for industrialisation is however encroaching upon rural areas even as such stringent measures are required to be taken to arrest air pollution which is growing dangerously threatening the mankind.
—Krishan Singh,
Talab Tillo, Jammu.