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Most Polluted Cities in India
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- Jharia, a city in Jharkhand is the most polluted city in India, which is followed by Dhanbad of the same state.
- Jharia and Dhanbad are twin cities in the coal mining belt of Jharkhand.
- The report also revealed that six of the country’s ten most polluted cities are in the state of Uttar Pradesh (Noida, Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Allahabad, Firozabad, and Moradabad).
- Lunglei city of Mizoram is the least polluted city and it is the only city with Particulate matter (PM) levels under the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) prescribed level.
- It was according to Greenpeace India’s, an environmental non-governmental organization, fourth Airpocalypse report.
- In 2019, the central government launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) with 2017 as the base year.
- It is a five-year action plan with a target of reducing concentrations of PM-10 and PM-2.5 up to 30% by 2024 in 102 non-attainment cities.
- Greenpeace was founded in 1971 in Vancouver, Canada and is headquartered in the capital city of Netherlands, Amsterdam.
- In India, the organization’s headquarter is in Bengaluru.
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