Category : Air Pollution | Location : National | Posted on 2025-12-14 23:32:04
Air pollution in India is no longer a winter irritant confined to the northern plains. It has become a persistent, nationwide public health emergency that affects every demographic group and nearly every organ system. Across the Indo-Gangetic plain, and increasingly in fast-growing urban centres elsewhere, dangerous concentrations of particulate matter are shaping disease patterns, slowing childhood development and silently reducing life expectancy.