Air Pollution Crisis in India

The Threat of Air Pollution
OnMask Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.

Air Pollution – On a global scale

Air Pollution - India

The Indian Scenario…
• The widely monitored pollutants in India are particulate
matter(PM), NO2 and SO2,CO and O3.The Central
Pollution Control Board(CPCB) considers air to be clean
if the levels are below 50%.
• Consequences of over exposure to these pollutants
range from premature mortality due to aggravated
morbidity effects such as asthma, bronchitis and oxygen
deficiency in blood.
• Out of the 190 cities monitored, apart from
Malapuram(Kerela) and Madurai(Tamil Nadu) all other
cities have high levels of air pollution, mostly PM

• Total number of Vehicles in India as in
2012160Million
• Expected number of vehicles in India
by 2030450 Million
• Annual emission of PM2.5 in 2012
2.5 Lakh
Tonnes
• Average annual increase in the
number of vehicles in the last decade10.2%

• lives lost due to air pollution, making it the fifth
largest killer in India620,000
• Daily average travel time in the metropolitan
cities1.5 Hours
• Increase in the number of life lost due to
vehicular and indoor air pollution compared to
2000
6X
• Reduction in life expectancy at birth due to
current levels of air pollution3.2 years

Top 5 most polluted cities in India
5. AHMEDABAD
• The textile industries in the city are the major contributors to air pollution
• PM less than 2.5µm (PM2.5) in the air: 100µg/m3
• PM less than 10µm (PM10 in the air: 67µg/m3
4. RAIPUR
• The power plants and big industries are the major reason for increasing
levels of air pollution
3. GWALIOR
• The coal fired power plants and vehicular emissions are the major factors
for the air pollution

Top 5 most polluted cities in India
2. PATNA
• Despite not being an industrial city, the vehicular
emissions in the city are huge
1. DELHI
• The most polluted city in India is also the 2nd most
polluted city in the world
• PM less than 10µm (PM10 in the air: µg/m3

Air Quality index – major cities in
India
The first national
index that explains
the effect
of breathing air to a
person’s health
The system though
is still to mature,
steps are being
taken by the CPCB
to improve the
accuracy of the
numbersSource: the times of India

Health hazards of air pollution
• Air pollution causes about 20 % of lung cancer and six
percent of high blood pressure deaths in India - Aaron
Cohen, Head, the Global Burden of Diseases group
• Air pollutants incite processes that lead to high blood
pressure, blood clotting, and electrical instability in the
heart, which can translate into heart attack, stroke, and
sudden cardiac death

“Risks from air pollution are
far greater than previously
thought, particularly in terms
of heart disease and strokes.
Few risks have a greater impact
on global health today than
air pollution. The evidence signals the need for concerted
action to clean up the air we breathe”
- Dr Maria Neira,
director of WHO’s department of public health,
environmental and social determinants of health.
Source: The Financial Express

Article by UCLA Institute of Environment
Impact of air pollution on infants and children

Facts about industrial pollution
• Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels like
coal and diesel has contributed to a worrisome
slowdown in rice harvest growth in India in the past two
decades
• India, the world's third-largest coal producer, is among
the world's top CO2 emitters. - National Geographic
• According to a research survey conducted by the
University of Kashmir across cement industries in India,
93% of the workers complained of wheezing, 71% had
irregular heart beats and 90% had cough problems due
to cement dust pollution

Facts about industrial pollution
• A study conducted by the North Maharashtra University,
Jalgaon across employees of cotton and other textile
industries in Maharashtra reveals that 51%-71% suffered
from chest tightness, 55%-62% experienced chest pain
while 33%-42% reported frequent coughs primarily due
to exposure to cotton dust pollution
• Cotton dust pollution is the primary cause of
Byssiniosis(a disease caused by exposure to cotton dust
which causes irritation in the mucous membrane in eye,
nose & throat, dry cough, chest tightness and wheezing

What can be learnt from other
countries??
• In Beijing, the government restricts what days you can
drive your car if there are too many consecutive days of
high pollution. They shut down factories and prohibit the
use of firecrackers and barbecues.
• Paris chooses to make public transportation free on days
with high pollution.
• Japan, whose pollution levels were once on par with the
current China, introduced drastic laws which was known
as the Pollution Diet of 1970. Today, Japan’s cities are
among the world’s least polluted, according to the WHO.

Did You Know ???
COPD that develops due to indoor pollution accounts for more than 1
million deaths every year
It takes only 5 days for a jet stream in China to carry the air pollution to
the United States
Rising levels of air pollution in Beijing has brought a new disease –
Beijing cough
By 2050, 6 million people will die per year due to air pollution

Striving to make a difference by providing
safe and healthy living
We at OnMask Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. are concerned about the
increasingly degrading quality of air we breathe. Big Indian cities
are becoming one of the most polluted in the world. We are
working towards providing better protection against air pollutants
and envision ourselves to be an end to end solution provider for
providing high quality breathable air.
OnMask Life Sciences Private Limited
CIE, Block C5, Vindhya C4
IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032
Ph : +91 8499014444,
+91 9573736666
For more information about us, log onto:
http://onmask.com
http://blog.onmask.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ OnMaskLifeSciences
We are available at:

Air Pollution Crisis in India

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (20)

Viewers also liked

Viewers also liked (10)

Similar to Air Pollution Crisis in India

Similar to Air Pollution Crisis in India (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Air Pollution Crisis in India