Statescan – February 1, 2019
While the Oxford dictionary declared Nari Shakti used today to symbolise women “taking charge of their lives” as the Hindi word for 2018, a report by Greenpeace states that 139 Indian cities breach air pollution standards but are not included in the Centre’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The cities include Ranchi, Dhanbad (Jharkhand); Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh); Chennai, Madurai (Tamil Nadu); Meerut (Uttar Pradesh); Pimpri-Chindwar, Thane, (Maharashtra); Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara (Gujarat); and Howrah (West Bengal).
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