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November 12, 2019

Activist Differ from MPCB’s Stand on Good Air Quality

The Times of India features AQLI's findings that air pollution causes the city of Aurangabad to lose 2.9 years of life expectancy.
By
Arpita Sharad

Aurangabad: The historic city of Aurangabad has been listed among the 102 most-polluted cities in the country but the state pollution control board maintains that they air quality is good.

The clean air campaigners, however, say that the presence of high amount of particulate matter and smoke is a concern for Aurangabad.

Over the last one week, the city has not witnessed any precipitation due to which there is a considerable increase in dust. When asked about the air quality, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board’s region officer Anil Mohekar said their hourly monitoring of the air quality in the city shows that the air quality parameters are very well within limits.

A research carried out by Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) states that while the global standards of PM 2.5 is 10 micrograms per cubic metre, at Aurangabad it is recorded to be 39.9 per cubic metre. This, the research claimed, causes the life expectancy in the city to drop by 2.9 years.

Continue Reading at Times of India…