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Air Pollution
13 December 2024
Deadly pollution in India has killed 38,00,000 people in a decade. According to that, 2 lakh people have been affected by pollution in Gujarat. However, the BJP government of Gujarat is giving importance to the pollution-causing industries. The golden corridor of industries from Ahmedabad to Vapi has now become a corridor of death.
In August 2018, the state government has constituted an 11-member high-level committee to study the causes of air pollution in Ahmedabad city, its control and the problem of piranha waste.
The high-level committee to be constituted under the chairmanship of the Additional Chief Secretary of the Forest Environment Department will have Additional Chief Secretary of Energy and Petrochemicals Department, Principal Secretary of Urban Development Department, Commissioner of Ahmedabad Municipality, Transport Commissioner and other government officials as members.
Other members of the committee are urban transport expert Prof. Shivanand Swamy, L.D. Engineering College Ahmedabad’s Prof. GH Boon, Director of Forest and Environment, L.D. J.N. Joshi, retired professor of Engineering College, Dr. Bharat Jain, member secretary of Gujarat Culinary Production Center has been appointed.
Member Secretary of Gujarat Pollution Control Board will be the convener of this high level committee.
A recent report states that the mortality rate is increasing rapidly due to the increase in the amount of PM 2.5 particles in the air. Millions of people in India are losing their lives due to long-term exposure to polluted air. This has come to light in the research of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. According to this report, 38 lakh people died due to air pollution in India from 2009 to 2019.
The research of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute was also published in Lancet Planetary Health. According to the research, the number of deaths due to air pollution increased from 45 lakh in 2009 to 73 lakh in 2019. This research calls for a strict stance on air quality regulations in India. This research is based on small air pollution particles called PM 2.5. These particles can penetrate deep into the lungs and bloodstream, potentially causing serious health problems.
The research was conducted based on data from 655 districts in India between the years 2009 and 2019, linking PM 2.5 levels to mortality. The study found that an increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter in PM 2.5 levels also increased mortality by 8.6 percent.
The study states that about 82 percent of the country’s 1.1 billion population live in areas where PM 2.5 levels exceed India’s national environmental quality norms. According to this research, about 3.8 lakh people have died due to bad air in the last 10 years as per the air quality standard of 40 micrograms per cubic meter in India. This figure becomes even more worrying when India’s standards are compared with the World Health Organization standards and guidelines.
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Tobacco smoke was believed to cause lung cancer, but now 50 percent is caused by pollution. In 85 percent of patients, the cause is smoking. In Gujarat, 4660 lung cancer patients have been registered in Ahmedabad’s cancer hospital GCRI in 5 years. Every year 8 thousand cancer patients in India and 2 thousand cancer patients in Gujarat. In which men are 82% and women are 18%. 10 percent of people survive after developing lung cancer.
Tobacco and pollution contribute 50-50 to lung cancer in Gujarat
The southern parts of the state of Gujarat have now received less rainfall. In Surat, locals say that the rainfall pattern of the city started changing about 20 years ago, due to which the city had fewer rainy days every year. However, Surat often gets flooded due to heavy rains.
The mercury in Ahmedabad starts touching 50 degrees Celsius. The previous highest temperature was 47.8 degrees Celsius 100 years ago in 1916. Banaskantha is usually a dry area. Heavy rains cause floods here. In the southwest, in arid Saurashtra, farmers and scientists are grappling with delayed monsoons, torrential rains and increasing flooding.
Gujarat’s cities are affected by heat, floods, pollution, farmers and environmental changing
More than 30,000 people died due to air pollution in Gujarat in 2018. Air pollution became Yamraj for the people of Gujarat. People of Gujarat were dying 2 years before time.
Ahmedabad became the most polluted city in Gujarat.. According to the latest data of 18 February 2023, Ahmedabad reached the 10th most polluted city in India. In 2021, more than 1500 people died due to bad air in Ahmedabad. Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara were also in the race to become the most polluted city.
Poisonous Gujarat
The estimated life expectancy of people living in India has decreased by 10 years. The air of Gujarat is becoming poisonous. Takes poison through the nose. The air of Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot has become the most polluted. In which Torrent Power House is responsible.
People dying in Ahmedabad and Surat due to Torrent power plant pollution
Delhi has emerged as the most polluted city in the world for the third consecutive year in 2020. In terms of air quality, 6 places in Gujarat have also crossed the danger mark in 2020. IQR, a Swiss group that measures air quality, has announced. Air pollution is defined as the level of lung-damaging particles in the air.
The air quality of the city is measured on the basis of PM2.5. These particles are called PM2.5.
35 of the 50 most polluted cities in the world are in India. Of which 6 are from Gujarat. Data has been collected from 106 countries. Its findings are based on the country’s annual average of PM 2.5, which are particles smaller than 2.5 microns floating in the air. Long-term exposure to PM 2.5 causes serious diseases including cancer and heart disease.
The rising pollution in Vadodara has worsened the condition of local health and agricultural areas, where most of the vegetable is produced. Local Rohit Prajapati today informed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board that people’s health is deteriorating due to heavy pollution. They have repeatedly requested the government to remove the chemical pollution but it has not been removed. Make Gujarat people free from pollution on 15th August 2020.
https://allgujaratnews.in/en/gujarat-people-demand-make-again-freedom-from-pollution-on-15-august/
The Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad city, along the entire river, is dry and within the riverfront project, it has stagnant water flowing in it. In the last 120 km, before it meets the Arabian Sea, it is “dead” and contains only industrial fluids and sewage.
https://allgujaratnews.in/en/video-dead-sabarmati-river-because-of-industrial-effluent-and-sewage/
Seven industrial units that failed to maintain the prescribed quantity regarding disposal of polluted water have been ordered to be shut down with immediate effect by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB).
As per the CETP and polluting industries referred by National Green Tribunal, CETP, while CPCB and GPCB have been ordered to do intensive monitoring of polluting industries. https://allgujaratnews.in/gj/6-%e0%aa%97%e0%aa%a3%e0%ab%81%e0%aa%82-%e0%aa%aa%e0%ab%8d%e0%aa%b0%e0%aa%a6%e0%ab%8 2%e0%aa%b7%e0%aa%a3-%e0%aa%95%e0%aa%b0%e0%aa%a4%e0%aa%be%e0%aa%82-%e0%aa%89%e0%aa%a6%e0%ab%8d%e0%aa%af%e0%ab%8b/
(Google translate from Gujarati)
