WHO Declared Four Most Polluted Indian Cities, Excluding Delhi

By siliconindia | Monday, 13 June 2016, 06:09 Hrs

BENGALURU: Every passing year the environmental pollution is increasing across the world. Ignorant behavior of humans towards environment leads to air pollution which is spreading more voraciously across world. It has been noticed that the heavy usage of fuel vehicles is one of the major reason for air pollution. The emission of car’s engine affects oxygen layer increasing carbondioxide level drastically.

A published report from Tehelka has specified some cities across the world that usually known as world’s most polluted cities.

The report states that Delhi is no more polluted city in the world, as per the World Health Organisation on 12 May. It has also added that still there are four Indian cities among the five cities that reflect the worst air pollution in the world. Based on the ground measurement of annual mean concentrations of particular matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5), WHO formed the data, depending on the core results of various government and research organizations’s examination.

Zabol, a city of Iran stands in a first place in the worldwide polluted cities as per the database. In summer the city suffers from dust storms and WHO specified its pollutions in terms of PM2.5 measure of 217.Gwalior and Allahabad ranks second and third in terms of PM 2.5. Patna is on 6th position and Raipur is 7th. India is now on the holds 11^th position among 3,000 cities in 103 countries in terms of PM 2.5 (fine, particulate pollution) and 25th in terms of PM 10 (coarse pollution particles) levels.

The report also highlighted the improvement of Delhi, since 2014 when Delhi was being categorized among the worst city in the world in terms of pollution. The annual PM of Delhi is 2.5 mean for 2013 (second half) is 122 micrograms per cubic metres. Examiners also appriciated on Delhi's efforts to control air pollution by mentioning its positions in the published report.

Several reasons contributes the enlistment of these cities as most polluted among others but some serious causes are, people has become habituated with diesel fuelled vehicles that directly effects on air. Therefore all cities need to take nesececcary steps to improve their Waste management procedures that plays a significant role in polluting air. Heating and cooling of big buildings, agriculture and use of coal or diesel generators and more are also catagorised as the main reasons of air pollution, so people need to be careful on their usage of fuel vehicles and its surfaces as well.