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Hyderabad air not fit to breathe
Hyderabad air not fit to breathe.It is now official - Hyderabad air is not fit for breathing. It is established beyond reasonable doubt that nearly 57 per cent of the city’s carbon footprint is contributed by vehicular emissions.
It is now official - Hyderabad air is not fit for breathing. It is established beyond reasonable doubt that nearly 57 per cent of the city’s carbon footprint is contributed by vehicular emissions. Though the city doesn’t rank very high in the list of Indian metropolis with large carbon footprints, the proportion contributed by vehicles in the city is the highest in the country.
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This was revealed in a recent study by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru. Scientists led by Dr TV Ramachandra say that vehicular pollution in the city contributes to a whopping 57 per cent to its entire carbon footprint. The carbon foot prints in Bengaluru is 43.5 per cent.
In Hyderabad, the fifth largest metropolitan in the country, 32 per cent of the traffic police personnel are suffering from lung-related disorders like pneumonia and bronchitis, while 25 per cent of them are facing hearing impairment and another seven per cent of the traffic cops are complaining about eye-related problems due to dust particles.
The ongoing Metro Rail construction is not only causing widespread traffic chaos in the twin cities, but is perhaps responsible for the alarming rise in air pollution over the last two years, AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) scientists say.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) CV Anand at a presentation made before the parliamentary standing committee on science, technology, environment and forests last December explained at length how increasing air pollution due to automobile exhausts and noise was affecting the health of traffic cops in the city over the years.
Of the 585 traffic junctions in the city, 125 junctions such as those at Chaderghat, Dilsukhnagar, Madina, Mozamjahi Market, Lakdikapul and Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar are identified as highly-polluted areas. Another 200 traffic junctions are identified as medium-pollution zones. According to official figures, the total vehicular pollution load in the city had gone up from 528 tonnes in 1992 to 1,246 tonnes per day in 2006 and almost 2,100 tonnes in 2013.
