Delhi's Pollution Alarm

PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM AND READ THIS INFOGRAPHIC BOTTOM UPWARDS World Bank says that ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION Reducing particulate emissions by 30% by 2030 Costs India Accounts for $80bn 23% would save of India's child mortality $105bn annually in health-related costs for India Rise in the number of vehicles registered between 2000 8 2013 DELHI MUMBAI 135.5% >51% 2000 2013 THE MAIN IMPEDIMENT Social Stratification The decisive way in which the richest 5% of our population can be insulated from having to experience the disasters of daily life on our streets. Politicians and bureaucrats belong to this 5% so, there is little incentive to change the growing automobilisation of our urban spaces. Sudhir Chella Rajan, IIT Madras Every month, Air pollution is the cause of 3,000 child deaths in Delhi, alone! INDIA HAS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DEATHS DUE TO ASTHAMA, IN THE WORLD! IN 2010 Particulate Matter in the air of 180 Indian cities was 6 times higher than the WHO standards I INDIA RANKED 174TH OUT OF 178 COUNTRIES ON AIR POLLUTION according to Yale Environmental Performance Index