"Breathe Out "

Do you know that every breath we take in, is dangerous ? If you stop breathing you will die and if you breath in then also you will die , it is a great dilemma. But what to do in such a situation " Breath in or Breath out " ? 

I would like to highlight some of the points . First bad news - Now a days , cities in India are monitored by air pollution control board on regular basis and most of then are living on the edge. Cosmopolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata has crossed the threholds for poor quality air. Good news- Air pollution which is an irreversible process, seems reversible due to change of fuel and new technology in the automobile industry. Now a days , we are using CNG , which is free from nitrogen dioxide and lead .Petroleum industryis also providing petrol which is free from lead. Previously effluents from vehicles contained lead oxide , which is every harmful for lungs and can cause lungs cancer. Now the big news, roughly 0.1 million people die every year due to air pollution. Air pollution has short-term and long-term health hazards like eye-irritation, headache and breathing problems. According to the statistics, Northern India is more polluted then southern India. In Delhi alone, more than thousand vehicles are added to the city everyday, but on other side number of public transport options have dropped. In Eastern India, the high level of  nitrogen dioxide is one of the major challenges for the government. In past few decades, the level of nitrogen dioxide has shown a marked increase, due to increasing number of steel industries. 

According to Central Pollution Control  Board, PM10 is one of the major components of air pollution. PM10 means particle size less than 10 micron. It is every dangerous as it goes deep into the lungs and can cause lung cancer. It is mainly released from vehicles. Every day thousands of vehicles are added on the road, leading to a disastrous situation.

It is a wake upcall for the government of India, to take some stringent actions and work at the grass root level . NGOs should also take part in this to create awareness. For a healthy life, we need to breath out in a pollution free atmosphere.