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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Air Pollution Harmful, But It Isn't A Killer, Says Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan -Pallava Bagla & Aloke Tikku

Air Pollution Harmful, But It Isn't A Killer, Says Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan -Pallava Bagla & Aloke Tikku

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published Published on Nov 11, 2017   modified Modified on Nov 11, 2017
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Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said air pollution in Delhi had gone beyond an acceptable level and would have an adverse health impact but it wasn't right to call it a health emergency.

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Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan appears to question recent global studies that claim lakhs of people die in India due to pollution. Dr Harsh Vardhan told NDTV in an interview that "to attribute any death to a cause like pollution may be too much".

The Lancet Countdown 2017 last month said air pollution had claimed as many as 2.5 million lives in India in 2015, the highest in the world. There have been other estimates as well, putting a different number to the lives lost due to air pollution.

"Ultimately these studies have to be India centric. To attribute any death to a cause like pollution, that may be too much," the minister said.

"Certainly if you have a diseased lung and if the pollution is continuously damaging your alveoli (air sacks) then one day when you die, you can attribute the cause of death, to some proportion, to maybe pollution. But I don't think we can generalise and say that millions of people are dying only due to pollution," Harsh Vardhan told NDTV in an interview.

The minister suggested that there was no need to get into such statistics of lives lost due to air pollution. "Different people will give different types of statistics. But no one can have a difference of opinion that pollution is detrimental to our health. We should be focused on that point," he said.

Dr Harsh Vardhan's comment is in contrast to his response in February this year when another global study that estimated 11 lakh deaths due to air pollution in India in 2015. He had then called air pollution a "silent killer" and a "slow poison" that could kill people, particularly children. "It can be a killer also. It can be like a slow poison. Which keeps destroying your alveoli in the lungs at a slow pace," he had then said.

But Dr Harsh Vardhan wasn't the environment minister in February. He is now. And it has been a long-held stand of the environment ministry to brush aside such reports.

The Environment Minister's stress that air pollution wasn't a killer comes at a time national capital Delhi and much of north India has been under a thick cover of toxic smog. There have also been growing calls for bigger government action to tackle what doctors called a public health emergency. One report said the deadly level of carcinogenic pollutants in Delhi's air on Wednesday was roughly 10 times the reading in Beijing, a city globally infamous for its air pollution.

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NDTV, 11 November, 2017, https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/air-pollution-harmful-but-it-isnt-a-killer-says-environment-minister-harsh-vardhan-1773985


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