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>> You haven't experienced air pollution if you haven't breathed in the evening air in Mumbai or Bangalore during the rush hour.

Economically, it may be a good sign that 1,400 new cars are added to Delhi's vehicle population every day.

According to the Centre for Science and Environment, the number of passenger cars in Delhi has gone up from around 75,000 in 2005-06 to more than half a million today.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/40-of-vehicles...

The pollution makes sense when you start to understand how many cars they are putting on the roads every day with no sign of letting up. They have recently said they want the whole country to have nothing but electric cars by 2030.




>...how many cars they are putting on the roads every day

That, and the fact that abysmal city planning has created unhealthy environments, such as locating chemical plants in suburban Mumbai, where a massive population resides.

Bhopal was a one-time disaster. But the cities of India are a continuous, on-going, everyday disaster.


Take every car off the road and those satellite images look almost exactly the same.




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