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India’s Deadly Air Pollution Keeps Getting Worse Not Better
- Program aimed at tackling smog is making little progress: CREA
- Number of cities suffering poor air quality has increased
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India is failing in efforts to improve its toxic air quality, with the number of smog-plagued cities increasing since the launch of a national program to tackle the issue.
A total of 132 cities now have pollution levels deemed below national standards, from 102 cities when the National Clean Air Programme began in 2019, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.