Category: Pollution

Why India gets 25% of the air pollution deaths in the world?

Priyanka Sharma
New Delhi air pollution

The effects of Air pollution are increasing every year. Now more people are dying from the air polluted related illness. It outplays road traffic injuries, alcohol use, malaria, malnutrition, and physical inactivity in terms of the ill-health effects associated with it. In India, over 1.2 million people lost their lives due to air pollution. In general, air pollution caused by three of the most problematic pollutants fine particles (PM2.5), ozone, and household (indoor) air pollution. It released by the U.S based health effects Institute (HEI) as per the report 90%…

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10 most polluted cities in India

Priyanka Sharma
Delhi air pollution

  India is the country of fastest-growing economy, but its air is highly polluted. We have moved up 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities with 5 in China, 2 in Pakistan and 1 in Bangladesh. According to the World, Bank India stand up health- care costs and productivity losses from the pollution of as much 8.5% of gross domestic product. The level of air quality can cause breathing discomfort to those with Asthma and Heart diseases. The WHO estimated that 7 million people a year die prematurely from…

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QUALITY OF LIVING: TOP 20 INDIAN STATES TO LIVE

Rajib Kar

Kerala tops among twenty Indian states in Niti Aayog’s Health Index Rankings. As per the report presented by Niti Aayog, fourteen out of twenty Indian states have registered an improvement in health indicators between 2014-15 and 2015-16; six states have shown a decline. Top-ranked Kerala slipped its previous mark without making any change in the rating. Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, and Karnataka are five other states among the declining ones. The worst performer of 2014-15, Uttar Pradesh, is continuing its twentieth rank even though it is among the three…

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