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Invisible killer
Business Standard
|September 04, 2025
India must aim to match WHO air-quality standards
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A new study by the Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) at the University of Chicago has confirmed what millions of Indians feel every day — the air they breathe is silently cutting their lives short. Far from being a problem confined to the smog-choked skies of Delhi and northwestern India, the effects of air pollution are being felt across the country. On average, Indians are losing 3.5 years of life expectancy to particulate pollution, which has a far greater impact than malnutrition, tobacco use, or unsafe water and sanitation. The numbers highlighted in the report are grim. In 2023, India's average annual concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) stood at 41 µg/cubic metre (1 µg is one-thousandth of 1 milligram) — more than eight times the World Health Organization's (WHO's) recommended limit of 5 µg/cubic metre, and even marginally higher than India's own weaker standard of 40 µg/cubic metre.
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