{"id":86705,"date":"2019-04-04T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:10:40","slug":"in-india-air-pollution-is-the-third-highest-cause-of-death-among-all-health-risks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-india-air-pollution-is-the-third-highest-cause-of-death-among-all-health-risks-report\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, air pollution is the third-highest cause of death among all health risks: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The State of Global Air 2019 has stated that exposure\nto outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to over 1.2 million deaths in\nIndia in 2017 and is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> largest cause of death among all health\nrisks. The report is a systematic annual study of the health effects of global\nair pollution and is published by Health Effects Institute (HEI).<\/li><li>The report has added that the present high level\nof air pollution has shortened the average lifespan of a South Asian child by\ntwo-and-a-half years. &nbsp;Globally the\nreduction in life expectancy due to air pollution stands at 20 months.<\/li><li>Air pollution had led to 5 million deaths in\n2017 across the globe and he South Asian region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal and\nPakistan) alone had accounted for over 1.5 million deaths.<\/li><li>According to the Health effects Institute, if\nthe major steps taken in India to curb air pollution are fully implemented\ncould result in significant health benefits in coming years. Important steps\ntaken to combat air pollution in India include a) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana,\nb) accelerated Bharat Stage VI clean vehicle standards, and c) National Clean\nAir Programme<\/li><li>Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna seeks to replace\nunclean cooking fuels used in the most underprivileged households with clean\nand more efficient LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). A major objective of the\nscheme is to ensure smoke-free houses and thus curb indoor air pollution.<\/li><li>The Indian government has also decided to skip\nBS-V and directly move to BS-VI from 2020. It has further agreed to advance the\nproposed date for Euro-VI from 2026 to 2020.<\/li><li>In 2019, National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) has\nbeen launched for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution in India. It\naims at 20%\u201330% reduction of PM2.5and PM10 concentration by 2024, taking 2017\nas the base year for the comparison of concentration. The programme targets 102\nnon-attainment cities.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Global Air 2019 has stated that exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to over 1.2 million deaths in India in 2017 and is the 3rd largest cause of death among all health risks. The report is a systematic annual study of the health effects of global air pollution and is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-india-air-pollution-is-the-third-highest-cause-of-death-among-all-health-risks-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In India, air pollution is the third-highest cause of death among all health risks: report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[380,4294],"class_list":["post-86705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-air-pollution","tag-state-of-global-air-2019","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}