{"id":89950,"date":"2021-02-25T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=89950"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:48:04","slug":"a-cse-study-on-pollution-levels-in-cities-and-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-cse-study-on-pollution-levels-in-cities-and-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"A CSE study on Pollution Levels in Cities and Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Centre for Science and Environment(CSE) has released a study analysing the difference in winter <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environment-news\/pollution-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air pollution levels in cities and towns<\/a>. It compares data of 2020-21 winter and the previous winters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The study analysed 99 cities. 75% of data completeness for two consecutive winters is the minimum criteria.<\/li>\n<li>The analysis is based on real time data from an online portal Central Control Room for Air Quality Management. It is the Central Pollution Control Board\u2019s(CPCB) official portal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The levels of PM 2.5 <\/strong>worsened in 43 of 99 cities when winter air pollution levels between 2020 and 2019 were compared.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PM 2.5: <\/strong>Particulate Matter(PM) 2.5 refers to a category of particulate pollutant that is 2.5 microns or smaller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact of Covid-19: <\/strong>In the aftermath of the Covid lockdown, several cities reported improved pollution levels. However, after the restrictions were significantly eased, pollution levels were back to pre-COVID-19 levels<\/li>\n<li><strong>North India Most Polluted: <\/strong>The top 23 polluted cities were in North India. Among North region, Ghaziabad was the most polluted city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smaller towns<\/strong> and upcoming cities have higher winter pollution levels than the mega cities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worst Pollution Cities: <\/strong>The cities with the worst pollution increase include Gurugram, Lucknow, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam, Agra, Navi Mumbai, and Jodhpur. Kolkata is the only megacity in this group.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Least Polluted Cities: <\/strong>Mysuru is the least polluted followed by Satna in MP and Kochi in Kerala.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Statewise: <\/strong>Uttar Pradesh had eight cities in the top 10 which were most polluted. Ghaziabad and Bulandshahr topped the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GAG8AHJVJ.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"L9JFiF18wG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-with-rising-pollution-levels-in-indian-cities-india-needs-a-clean-air-act-and-an-autonomous-new-body-to-enforce-it-comment\/\">[Answered] \u201cWith rising pollution levels in Indian cities, India needs a Clean Air Act and an autonomous new body to enforce it.\u201d Comment.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;[Answered] \u201cWith rising pollution levels in Indian cities, India needs a Clean Air Act and an autonomous new body to enforce it.\u201d Comment.&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-with-rising-pollution-levels-in-indian-cities-india-needs-a-clean-air-act-and-an-autonomous-new-body-to-enforce-it-comment\/embed\/#?secret=WQmGm5sXgh#?secret=L9JFiF18wG\" data-secret=\"L9JFiF18wG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Centre for Science and Environment(CSE) has released a study analysing the difference in winter air pollution levels in cities and towns. It compares data of 2020-21 winter and the previous winters. About the study: The study analysed 99 cities. 75% of data completeness for two consecutive winters is the minimum criteria.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-cse-study-on-pollution-levels-in-cities-and-towns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A CSE study on Pollution Levels in Cities and Towns<\/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":[1566,1351,1310,4182,9],"tags":[1318],"class_list":["post-89950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704770425},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89950","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=89950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}