In the News
December 27, 2018
It’s all in the air: pollution, health risks, wind patterns governing weather conditions and life expectancy. Indian cities are extremely polluted, so much that the country’s Capital is gasping for fresh air at the end of 2018. National and global studies have confirmed that the state of the air in India poses severe health risks.
While the Centre, state governments, civil societies and the judiciary have come together to check air pollution, policies are being framed to promote and push electric vehicles.
Here is a low down on what has been up in the air in 2018.
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In November, a study conducted by Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago said Indians would have lived 4.3 years longer if the 2016 air quality met the WHO’s annual safe air quality guideline of 10 micrograms per cubic metre.