Recent Developments

India is roiled with specific problems where the two-thirds of its population still lives outside of cities and 80% of these households rely on biomass like wood and dung for cooking and heating. The WHO report also points out that 14 out of 20 polluted cities were from India. Thus, to avert such crisis we need to plan solutions in a bottom-up approach.

Recent Developments

National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)

  • The Centre has launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce particulate matter (PM) pollution by 20-30% in at least 102 cities by 2024.
  • The NCAP will be a mid-term, ....
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