Tag: clean air

NEW DELHI: High-polluting cities such as Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Nashik and Kota recorded improvement in terms of reducing PM10 to an extent, but their levels remain quite far from the acceptable limit, as per data released by Union environment ministry. Delhi reduced the level of PM10 from 241 g/m3 in 2017-18 to…

NEW DELHI: Twenty-one cities including Greater Mumbai, Varanasi, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Trichy and Tuticorin have reduced the concentration of critical air pollutant PM10 by more than 40% in 2023-24 compared to 2017-18 levels, according to the latest compilation of data from 131 cities made by the environment ministry.Though these 21 cities have met…