‘99.4% of Uttar Pradesh lives in high pollution areas’

LUCKNOW: The Indo-gangetic region is one of the most polluted regions in the country given the fact that it is landlocked. UP lies in this region and at least 99.4% of the state’s population resides in areas which exceed the permissible limits of air pollution. This was highlighted in a webinar titled ‘solving Uttar Pradesh’s air pollution crisis while keeping pace with the development’ organised by

Climate Trends

on International Clean Air Day on Tuesday.

The panellistswere

Padma Shri Arunima Sinha

, Prof SN Tripathi from civil engineering department,

IIT Kanpur

,

Femina Miss

India 2020-runner up Manya Singh, Prof Dr Surya Kant, HoD, pulmonary medicine,

KGMU

, Dr Anirudh Mukherjee, assistant professor, general medicine, AIIMS, Raebareli and Dr GC Kisku, chief scientist, IITR, Lucknow. “In UP, we don’t get any trend because sufficient data is not available,” said Prof Tripathi.

Dr Surya Kant said, high air pollution levels are not only causing respiratory disorders in people in UP but also neurological ailments.

There is a need to make the common man aware of air pollution and its impacts, said Arunima Sinha.


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