Most polluted cities in India : WHO latest report reveals shocking informations
The WHO global air pollution database released in Geneva early Wednesday morning reveals that India has 14 out of the 15 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM 2.5 concentrations.
The second largest city of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Kanpur, attained global infamy on Tuesday after the World Health Organisation (WHO) placed it on top of a list of 4,300 world cities monitored for their air pollution levels in the year 2016.
Worse still for India, the next 13 cities in the list were also all from here, namely: Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur, Srinagar, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Patiala and Jodhpur. The national Capital climbed down from the fourth spot, where it appeared in WHO 2015 data, to the sixth spot only.
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These were followed by Ali Subah Al Salem of Kuwait, Baoding of China and Ulaanbaatar of Mongolia among the first 17. Notably, the Chinese Capital, Beijing, didn’t even make it to the first 20 cities reflecting the drastic measures the communist regime has taken to shed its “Greyjing” tag and bring back its “blue skies.”
These include shutting down many coal-based power plants and putting a cap on the number of private cars that can be sold in a year.
The only bright spot for India was the WHO report making a special mention of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Ujjwala’ scheme to provide LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.
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