
Tag Air Pollution


Video: Combating Air Pollution in National Capital Region
The State of Cities – #CityConversations Panel Discussion on Combating Air Pollution in National Capital Region National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, and #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute,…

Duststorms, PM 2.5: The Struggle of Children to breathe among Heat Waves in Delhi
Manish Thakre Delhi NCT, the capital of the fastest growing economy in the world, is grappling to breathe. There are 59,21,350 children in the age group of 0-18 years (NIUA, 2018) who are facing health threats due to air pollution…

How to avoid air pollution in India?
Gurinder Kaur Two studies released on September 1, 2021 on the damage to human health due to increasing air pollution in India have revealed very worrying facts. One study is conducted by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of…

Air Pollution: A Massacre for Delhi
Gurinder Kaur According to the study by international team of researchers from the University of Birmingham and UCL, comprising scientists from the UK, Belgium, Jamaica, and India, released their findings highlighting air pollution is on the rise in a number…
Urban Governance in China and India: Deconstructing Issues of Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar “There is a major number of differences in the urbanization of India and China. According to Census 2020, more than sixty percent of China’s population live in cities. Urban population growth has been driven due to…
Delhi’s Air Pollution and its Solutions
*Dr Gurinder Kaur A World Health Organization (WHO) report, 2012, states 13 of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in India. In 2014, researchers of Yale University, USA and WHO declared Delhi as the world’s most polluted city.…