Dehradun in top five polluted cities of the country

NewsBharati    31-Jan-2018
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Dehradun, January 31: Uttarakhand capital Dehradun is among the top five polluted cities of the country says a recent report released “Airpocalypse II” by Green Peace India. Dehradun has emerged in the top five lists of the most polluted cities above some of tier-I and tier-II cities like Bangalore, Pune, and Kanpur among others, the survey has found.

Green Peace India has listed Delhi as the city with the highest (PM10) followed by Haryana’s Faridabad, Bhiwadi in Rajasthan, Bihar’s Patna, and Dehradun in Uttarakhand. A total of 280 cities across the country were covered during the study.

There is an increasing trend in the pollution level between 2015 and 2016, almost for all the cities/towns where data was recorded across Uttrakhand; with Dehradun leading the rest with the highest increase says the report.

 

Dehradun had the highest PMɼɻ levels in the state with annual average levels going four times above the annual standard and almost two and a half times above the daily standard prescribed under the National Ambient Air Quality Standard. Dehradun was also amongst the most polluted cities in the country in terms of PM10 levels. The report said the 2015 average of PM10 was 190 µg/m3 in Dehradun while it increased to 238 µg/m3 in 2016. The yearly average was 238 µg/m3.

Annual PM10 levels during 2016 in the six cities of Dehradun, Rudrapur, Haldwani, Haridwar, Kashipur, Rishikesh were 238, 142, 130, 128, 121 and 118 µg/m3 respectively.