Jaipur . Bhiwadi, an industrial city in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, has surpassed Delhi, which has topped the air pollution chart in the world index for the year 2021.
IQAir, which monitors air pollution around the world, has released its 2021 Global Air Quality Report covering 6,475 cities in 117 countries. According to this report, Bhiwadi is the most polluted city.
The average level of PM-2.5 in 2021 was recorded at 106.2 in Bhiwadi, while it was 96.4 in Delhi.
PM-2.5 is the unit of measurement of the level of pollution.
In the category of cities, Ghaziabad is second only to Bhiwadi, where the pollution level is 102.
As pollution levels remain high in the city of this desert state, a separate regional office has been set up within the Alwar district.
A senior official of the Pollution Control Board, Bhiwadi said that there are over 2,000 factories in Bhiwadi, of which over 300 generate pollution. We are trying to control it. Full monitoring of factories with boilers is being done. The fuel pattern of 70 percent of them has also changed. Apart from this, smoke due to traffic load and dust blowing from broken roads are also a major reason for pollution.
Acting Collector Sunita Pankaj said that apart from industries, vehicular movement on the highway also contributes to air pollution. Bhiwadi has many small and big industries of steel, automobile and electronics. He said that the major cause of pollution is air dust which is 48 to 50 percent.
In 2020, Bhiwadi was ranked fourth in the World Pollution Index.
—AnyTV News
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