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These Start-ups Are Putting Up a Fight Against Air Pollution

Due to air pollution, 30,000 people die in Delhi every year of which 14,800 are premature deaths.

It is estimated that at least 10 years of life span is reduced on issues that everyone faces, apart from the long-term hazardous ill effects on health.

• The worsening air pollution has shaken up some sensitive young individuals who have come up with innovative ideas to fight air pollution.
• “Air pollution in various towns and cities of India, especially industrial towns, is almost as bad as that in Delhi.
• Air pollution for our country is a much bigger problem and goes beyond the Capital,”Mehta, one of the founders of Internet-of-Things-based air monitoring startup, Oizom.
• He asserts that people’s concern is limited to the winter period when the media covers the issue, but they are not mindful of the pollution that surrounds them throughout the yearrised Content