New Report Clears the Air on India’s Air Quality; Industrial Hubs Alone Not to Be Blamed for Poor AQIs | The Weather Channel – Articles from The Weather Channel
While it is true that Indian cities suffer from extremely high levels of air pollutant concentrations, to target industrial hubs alone and to hold them responsible for the poor ambient quality of air without any strong evidence, as is being done by activists across the political spectrum and state governments, is not only patently unfair but misleading too.
In fact, a recent report by three eminent scientists on the adverse impact on air quality because of Industrial emissions has cleared many of the long-held misgivings. R.L. Verma of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, J.S. Kamyotra, freelance consultant, New Delhi and Dr Balram Ambade, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, studied the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Thoothukudi (former Tuticorin), and compared it with other…
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