Air pollution need to be controlled
The air pollution crisis in urban India is a serious issue. There is air pollution problem affecting rural
areas too. The report from the World Health Organisation reveals that 14 Indian cities among the 20 are
most polluted ones globally. WHO researchers get around this problem by using
alternative data sources such as satellite remote sensing and chemical
transport models, along with ground-monitoring stations. The report puts the
global death toll from air pollution at seven million a year, attributable to
illnesses such as lung cancer, pneumonia and ischemic heart disease.
As the recently published draft National Clean Air Programme noted, there
are currently no air pollution monitoring stations in rural India. Studies have shown that ozone levels are
higher in rural areas, as is pollution from insecticide use and crop-burning.
The WHO has asked Southeast Asian countries to take swift action to tackle the
twin problems of indoor and outdoor pollution.
Government is trying. But we common people must do our parts. If we are
not sincere, if we don't work towards positive things, government won't do
anything. We all need to work together to make this country clean.
Subsidies, Free gadgets and even Free food cannot and will not solve any
problem that plagues a nation like India, where almost 75% of the people live
in most dilapidated conditions and with actual per capita Real Earnings of less
than Rs.3,200. Pollution is a far lesser problem than basic Living needs - and
if this basic need is solved, we can be sure that by themselves those with
better purchasing capacity would automatically graduate to better standard of
living. This also stands for Pollution, which needs answers that call for
higher expenditures on Pollution controls. So, which comes first: Pollution or
huge Disparity, and which has to be solved first?
Despite many reports from various organizations warning of increase in
pollution levels, the rulers have never addressed the problem. Even now, it may
be too much to expect in drastic change in the policies on the problem plaguing
the nation. Pollution is the most sensitive thing in our country. It is
essential to take positive actions like increasing the numbers of trees and preventing
deforestation and burning of crops. These are also sensitive problems due to which
air pollution could increase year after year. We should be find solutions for
these problems too.
If the pollution level rises at this pace then the Indian cities are not
far away from becoming a gas chamber with no fresh oxygen level to breathe in
and out. Significant steps should be taken to install pollution level checking
stations along with that the government machinery which should check the rapid
crop stub burning mania, open burning of plastic and homely wastes, improper
handling of kitchen and industry waste, rampant installations of brick kilns in
the rural areas provoking greater harms to the village flora and fauna along
with becoming a hub of greater air polluting centers.
A developing third world nation like India should gravely think about the
environmental issues. The government must put strict control over the excessive
number of petroleum-fueled vehicles throughout the country. We Indians have to
respond positively to this sort of actions. A systematic awareness on the topic
among the public also would help encounter this burning problem.
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