Greenpeace International Asks India Evaluate Pollution Data

BENGALURU: Alarming levels of pollution still don’t threaten the Indian Government. Despite the consistent pressure from the global NGOs and other global environmental watchdogs India is not willing to attend to its environmental needs. Global NGO Greenpeace International has asked the government of India to stop being in denial over the fact that its national capital has a severe pollution problem, and asked it to take a lesson from China.

Greenpeace campaigner, Aishwarya Madineni told Firstpost that, "India is still in denial about the alarming pollution levels in the national capital. Our government still wants to compare itself to Beijing but the Chinese city is already moving ahead. Its pollution levels have reduced, they have put in place a 5-year plan, monitoring systems and an alarm system (to warn of high pollution levels).”

The national capital has been warned time and again about its threatening levels of pollution whereas there is no definite plan to deal with the rising pollution levels in place as yet.

The government had set up an expert committee so that India could evolve its own standards for pollution index in cities.This is  despite India already having a CPCB and state pollution control boards as reported by The Hindu.

Speaking to The Hindu, Susheel Kumar, the then chairperson of CPCB, said, “We wanted to come out with our own Index; it is a technical AQI and not a government supported one,” he said, adding that the state governments have agreed to adopt the index which will have six categories—good, satisfactory, moderately polluted, poor, very poor and severe.

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