‘Patna sixth most polluted city in world’

PATNA: Believe it or not, however Patna is the sixth maximum polluted town on the earth.
According to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) file, Gwalior, Allahabad, Raipur and Patna from India are a few of the 10 worst cities in 67 international locations in relation to air pollution, stated Patna University (PU) geology trainer and JD(U) MLC Ranbir Nandan at a countrywide seminar on ‘Environmental challenges: Monitoring, assessment and remediation’ at Patna Science College on Wednesday. The two-day seminar has been arranged via PU zoology department in collaboration with the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED), Patna.

Nandan stated the WHO survey found 11 cities in India a few of the 20 worst polluted on the earth. “Average lifestyles expectancy of people in our nation is prone to decrease a minimum of via 15 months because of the ever-increasing air pollution from industrial effluents, greenhouse gases and vehicular emissions. By 2040, about 9 lakh untimely deaths are most likely in the nation because of drastic upward push in air pollution,” he stated and added that the fairway quilt in Bihar, then again, had larger from nine to 15% in the last 17 years because of some bold state executive initiatives.

PU vice-chancellor Rash Bihari Prasad Singh stated the rising human intervention in the herbal processes used to be creating the entire issues. “The tempo of local weather change has accelerated in recent years because of human actions. It comes to all 3 dimensions — economic, environmental and social — of sustainable construction. We should have a long-term standpoint on how our actions these days will have an effect on our kids day after today. As a lot as 64 square km of land house on the earth is turning into an city landscape according to day,” he stated.


The VC stated indiscriminate exploitation of herbal assets via the ever-increasing population is prone to lead to a significant disaster. The global’s population in 1650 used to be only 50 crore, which larger to 250 crore in 1950. But, in the last 67 years, the population has larger to 730 crore. About 50 to 60 organic species are being misplaced every day because of environmental degradation, he added.


Nalanda Open University VC Rabindra Kumar Sinha observed that the ancestors were extra serious about environmental protection. Emperor Asoka had ruled that husk containing insects should not be burned. He stated creating international locations like India will endure essentially the most from environmental adjustments.


PU pro-VC Dolly Sinha, Jadavpur University School of Environmental Sciences director Tarit Roychowdhary, PU science faculty dean Radha Kant Prasad, PU zoology department head Pashupati Nath, organizing secretaries D K Paul and P K Khan additionally addressed the seminar on its first day.


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