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Gurugram Is World’s Most Polluted, Four Other NCR Cities In Top 10: Report
Air pollution in the NCR. (Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
India's National Capital Region (NCR) has emerged as the most polluted region in the world in 2018 in a report compiled and analysed by IQ AirVisual, a software company that tracks pollution worldwide, and Greenpeace, an environmental NGO, reports Hindustan Times.
Cities like Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida, and Bhiwadi have emerged among the top six worst-affected cities.
The reports also highlight that air pollution would likely cost an estimated seven million lives globally over the next year, while costing the world’s economy nearly $ 225 billion.
Of the 20 most polluted cities in the world last year, 18 were from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Delhi stood eleventh in the list, whereas, Pakistan’s Faisalabad is the only non-Indian city in the top five.
Beijing has shown remarkable improvement in air quality and ranked 122nd in the list last year.
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