Dirty air doesn't directly kill people. But its impact does. The WHO report claimed that 2.5 million Indians died due to air pollution in 2015 alone - the largest number of pollution deaths in the world. The same year the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet said that India along with China made up for over 50 percent deaths in the world due to ambient air pollution.
The report, published by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health , said that pollution consumes about 7 percent of the medical expenses in the middle-income countries and welfare losses due to pollution go up to 4.6 trillion US dollars in a year. Within global medical fraternity, there is an agreement that air pollution is one of the largest environmental causes of disease and death in the world. However, the government’s response in India to such reports has been apathy and denial. In August 2016, the environment…
