Lucknow: Indo-Gangetic Region is one of the most polluted areas in this country given the fact that it is in the mainland.
Best in this region and at least 99.4% of the country’s population are in areas that exceed the boundaries of permitted air pollution.
This highlighted in a webinar entitled ‘Solving the Uttar Pradesh Air Pollution crisis while offsetting developments’ organized by climate trends on International Water Day on Tuesday.
PanellistsWere Padma Shri Arunima Sinha, Prof.
SN Tripathi from the Civil Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur, Femina Miss India 2020-Runner Up Manya Singh, Prof.
Dr.
Surya Kant, Hod, Medical Lung, Kgmu, Dr.
Anirudh Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, General Medicine , AIIMS, Raebareli and Dr.
GC Kysku, head of scientists, IITR, Lucknow.
“Above, we don’t get any trend because enough data is not available,” said Prof.
Tripathi.
Dr.
Surya Kant said that high air pollution rates not only caused respiratory disorders in the above but also neurological diseases.
There is a need to make ordinary people be aware of air pollution and its impact, said Arunima Sinha.
’99 .4% Uttar Pradesh lives in a high pollution area ‘
