Question raised in Lok Sabha on Deaths due to Pollution, 02/08/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Deaths due to Pollution, 02/08/2016. There are no conclusive data available across the country to establish direct correlation of death exclusively due to indoor and outdoor air pollution. The details of funds released to various monitoring agencies under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) for air pollution monitoring during 2012-2016 are given at Annexure-I. The ambient air quality monitoring carried out by CPCB for 13 Indian cities during 2010-2015, which is given at Annexure-II, infers that WHO data for most of the Indian cities do not match with CPCB monitored data and keeping these factors in view, comparison among cities and ranking of cities may not be reasonable.