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Air Pollution Causes 12 lakh Deaths In India Annually

by The Daily Eye Team January 17 2017, 2:37 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secs

Delhi tops the list of 20 most polluted cities in the country where 1.2 million deaths take place every year due to air pollution, according to a Greenpeace India report published today. It also claimed that none of the 168 cities it assessed complies with air quality standards prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the report, 1.2 million deaths take place every year in India due to air pollution, which is only a "fraction less" than that caused by tobacco usage, and three per cent of the GDP is lost due to air pollution.

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