Air pollution may reduce life expectancy of Indians by nine years, says study

Wednesday, 1 September 2021Newsdesk
Air pollution may reduce life expectancy of Indians by nine years, says study
Air pollution can reduce the life expectancy of Indians by nine years, says a report by a US research group.

New Delhi, 01 September2021

As per news report of BBC, the study says 480 million people in northern India face the "most extreme levels of air pollution in the world" and, over time, these high levels have expanded to cover other parts too.Strong clean air policies can add up to five years to people's lives, it adds.Indian cities routinely dominate global pollution rankings and bad air kills more than a million people every year.The report by The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) says that north India breathes "pollution levels that are 10 times worse than those found anywhere else in the world".

Source -BBC

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