The World Air Report 2024. The company Swiss Air Technology Company IQair said Delhi remains the most contaminated metropolitan urban worldwide, while India occupies the fifth most polluted country in the world in 2024, which marks the improvement from its third rank in 2023.
The thirteen of the 20 most contaminated cities in India are in India, and BYRNIHAT in ASAM is headed by the list, according to a new report published on Tuesday. The World Air Report 2024. The company Swiss Air Technology Company IQair said Delhi remains the most contaminated metropolitan urban worldwide, while India occupies the fifth most polluted country in the world in 2024, which marks the improvement from its third rank in 2023.
Four cities in neighboring Pakistan and one in China are among the top 20 cities in the world.
The report states that in India there is a decrease in PM2.5 by 7 percent in 2024, an average of 50.6 mcg per cubic meter compared to 54.4 mcg per cubic meter in 2023.
However, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities are in India.
Delhi air pollution deteriorated, and the average annual PM2.5 concentration increased from 102.4 mcg per cubic meter in 2023 to 108.3 mcg per cubic meter in 2024.
The Indian Cities in the List of World’s Top 20 Most Pollute Cities are byrnihat, Delhi, Punjab’s Mullanpur, Faridabad, Loni, Gurugram, Ganganagar, Greater Noida, Bhiwadi, Bhiwadi, Bhiwadi, Bhiwadi, Bhiwadi Bhiwadi, Muzafarnagar, Hanumangarh and Noida.
Overall, 35 percent of Indian cities reported the annual PM2.5 level, which exceeds 10 times the World Health Organization (WHO) in 5 micrograms per cubic meter, the report said.
High levels of contamination in Bernikha, the town on the border of the Assam-Megala, associated with the emissions of local factories, including distillers, iron and steel plants.
Delhi fights high air pollution all year round, and the problem worsens in winter, when adverse meteorological conditions combined with vehicles, padding, firecrackers and other local contamination sources, make the air quality.
The air pollution in India remains a serious health risk, reducing life expectancy by 5.2 years. According to the Lancet Planetary Health Study Study, published last year, about 1.5 million deaths in India every year from 2009 to 2019 are potentially linked to the long -term effects of PM2.5 pollution.
PM2.5 refers to tiny air pollution less than 2.5 μm, which can get into the lungs and blood, which will lead to problems with breathing, heart disease and even cancer.
Sources include exhaust vehicles, industrial emissions and wood burning or waste.
Former Chief Scientist and Advisor of the Ministry of Health Sumus Sumyanan said that India has made progress in collecting air quality data, but has no sufficient action.
“We have data; we now need actions. Some decisions are easily similar to biomass replacement. India already has a scheme for this, but we must subsequently subsidize additional cylinders. The first cylinder is free, but the poorest families, especially women, should receive higher subsidies.
In cities, public transport expansion and fines to certain cars can help. “The combination of incentives and punishments is necessary,” she said. “Finally, the strict implementation of the allocation laws is crucial. The industries and construction sites must comply with the rules and set the equipment to reduce the emissions rather than receiving shortcuts,” the former CEO of the Indian Medical Research (ICMR) added.
Avinash Chanchal, Deputy Director of the Greenpeace South Asia program, said the report once again exposed that the steps taken as part of the pure air control in India are insufficient.
“Numerous studies have discovered emissions from road transport as one of the main participants in the PM2.5 concentration in our cities. However, the government was unable to strengthen the public transport system.
“There is not enough special financing, and the cities are fighting for the addition of new bus fleots, to build effective public transport infrastructure and to ensure the connection to the first and last miles,” he said.
Changchal also stated that the government should make obligations as a right rather than the goods, creating a special public transport fund.
This fund must provide investment in public buses, subsidies for travel and expanding rapid mass transit systems, he said.
Vivek Agarwal, Global Policy Expert and Director of the country, Institute of Global Changes Tony Blair, said that despite numerous interventions, pollution in cities such as Delhi remains unsolvable because of the safe environmental environment, poor data collection and “political short-term”.
“Regular institutions are fragmented. Pollution is a regional problem, but forced implementation in individual state councils to control environmental pollution with a slight ability to effectively regulate or release emissions.
“The pollution data remains unreliable, as well as enclosing violators from identifying and prosecuted. This leads to excessive attention to visible suspects, such as burning the crop rather than silent annual participants such as old pollutant trucks,” he said.
The crisis will additionally deteriorate with myopic policy.
Measures such as the odd scheme serve as political theater, but do not solve system drivers such as pollution and construction dust. Agarwal said cities such as Delhi are no more than a stop, and a centralized, well-funded regulation.
(Except for headlines, this story did not edit DNA employees and published with PTI)
