AIR POLLUTION IN INDIA

BY
SHAHANA
DEFINITION

 Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. Car
emissions, chemicals from factories, dust, pollen and mold spores may be
suspended as particles. Ozone, a gas, is a major part of air pollution in cities.
When ozone forms air pollution, it's also called smog.
 Some air pollutants are poisonous. Inhaling them can increase the chance
you'll have health problems. People with heart or lung disease, older adults
and children are at greater risk from air pollution. Air pollution isn't just
outside - the air inside buildings can also be polluted and affect your health.
India's Air Pollution

 India is having a major battle with air pollution. It is a problem that has been
around since they started to industrialize and still remains today.
 With a rapidly growing population, the Indian government needs to take
control of what is happening.
 The quality of air in India is a serious concern for the citizens of the country,
as well as for people in neighboring countries.
 The current status of India's air is one of the most important topics to review
as it gives information of how bad the situation really is.
Delhi can barely New be seen through the haze
known as air pollution.
Current status of air pollution in india

 India is at the bottom of the charts when it comes to clean, safe air. Out of
132 countries assessed by Yale and Columbia, India ranked last, indicating
that they have the world’s most polluted air. The worst forms of air pollutions
are often found in Indian cities.
 Particulate matter (PM), one of the most widely monitored pollutants in
India, is the main cause of the increasing air pollution in this South Asian
subcontinent.
 The particulate matter build up can reach as high as five times above the
safety limits for some cities in India. This creates a major health concern for
the people living and breathing in the polluted air every day.
Streets in India are gray and hazy due to the
accumulation of pollutants.
 The National Air Quality Monitoring Program claims that nearly half of the
Indian cities monitored have reached critical levels of particulate matter.
There are sixty-three cities with critical levels, thirty-six cities with high
levels, and nineteen cities at moderate levels.
 In 2007, only three out of 121 cities in India that had been analyzed were
considered at low pollution level. These cities were Dewas, Tirupati, and
Kozhikode.
 Northern India has been known to have increasing air pollution while
southern India has shown the opposite trend
Particulate matter levels in Delhi
CAUSES

1-Outdoor pollution
 There are many factors to the increasingly bad air pollution in India. India is a
nation that is becoming more and more industrialized while its population
soars to over a billion people.
 There are an estimated 1,400 new cars on Indian roads every day adding to
the seven million cars that are already registered. Also, with increased
population means more supplies.
 Diesel trucks are used to move products from one place to another; the diesel
fumes are very harmful and are rapidly deteriorating air quality.
 

Display of daily vehicular air pollution in India

2-Indoor pollution
 Many people think that their homes are the safest places for them, but they
are wrong. Indoor air pollution in India is just as bad as outdoor pollution is.
 Indoor pollution is mostly caused my the burning of solid fuels during cooking.
This would not have as great of an effect if there were properly ventilated
homes in India.
 Most Indian homes do not have proper ventilation, and even when they do,
the air outside is so polluted it doesn’t really help the way it should.
 Many people in India are heavy tobacco smokers and smoke in their homes.
An Indian women polluting her home
through cooking.
Effects

 The effects of air pollution in India are only getting worse as the years go by.
The worsening effects can only be the result of the increasing amount of air
pollution in India.
 Air pollution is the 5th biggest cause of death in India. In 2010, air pollution
(both indoor and outdoor) took the lives of 1.5 million people in India, which
is six times greater than the amount of deaths from air pollution in 2000.
 Six percent of high blood pressure deaths are a direct result of air pollution.
Therefore, not only can the air in India take lives, it can also lead to other
life threatening diseases.
Air pollution was the number one risk factor for
disease in India during 2010
The World Health Organization has declared that there is a direct link between
diesel exhaust and cancer. How can one of life’s basic, essential, needs be so
fatal? How is it possible that people are dying from what they need to survive? If
nothing is done about the growing air pollution, life in India can only get worse.

People in India protect themselves from the air pollution

by wearing face masks
Prevention
 The Indian government has finally begun to realize the problem at hand.
Realizing how bad the quality of air there is, the first step in making any
improvements.

Students protest the use of chemicals which

pollute the air they breathe.
The 5 year plan
 The first part of the plan is to develop better technology in cars and trucks.
Also it is to improve the efficiency and enforcement of regulation placed on
vehicular emission.
 The second part of the plan is to encourage public transportation. The
government aims to do this by making public transportation more available to
the everyday person.
 The third part of the plan is to try to find alternative fuels for coal-fired
plants to help reduce the harmful emissions coal gives off.
 The final step of the plan is to place stricter environmental standards, and to
make sure they are correctly enforced.
This organizer shows the path to limiting pollution
New Delhi's Air pollution

 New Delhi ties for first place, along with Beijing, China, for having the
world’s worst air. New Delhi is one of India’s most important cities
considering the fact that it is India’s capital.
 Unfortunately for it’s inhabitants, New Delhi’s air is fatal. The statistics are
alarming. Specific to New Delhi, the numbers of vehicles on the road have
increased by sixty-five percent since 2003.
 Geography also plays a role in New Delhi’s traumatic air pollution because it
is a landlocked city unlike Mumbai or Chennai.There is no coastal breeze
eradicating the pollutants.
New Delhi is in the middle of the country therefore it
does not receive the coastal breeze to clear out air
pollution
The Victory Arch in New Delhi can not even be seen in this
picture due to the smog produced from pollution

Vehicles passing through India's capital increase the rate of

pollution
Conclusion

 Urban air pollution has long been a serious problem in the India , reflecting
both the importance of highly polluting industries for the national economy
and political factors such as the low priority of environmental issues and lack
of public participation.
 Also, its affecting environment and public health in India is in serious risk
and environmental impact on the climate which is also a important factor for
agriculture that Indians depend on for living
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