Soon we'll need gas masks to prevent ourselves from catching all kinds of respiratory diseases. Our kids will become asthmatic and we'll have to incur all kinds of expenses to bring back normalcy into our lives. This is supposed to be the Garden City and we should be breathing good, clean air full of oxygen. The reality is that just the opposite is happening.
Statistics show that the ambient air quality in Bangalore is deteriorating rapidly.
The amount of nitrogen oxides in the air is 34 micrograms per meter cubed of air, which is quite high. The amount of suspended particulate matter is 200 microns per meter cubed of air, also high. There are also 44 microns of Sulphur Dioxide per meter cubed of air, another high statistic. Every year the numbers seem to go higher and higher and the average person inhales more and more impurities. It would be very interesting to find out the number of asthma, lung cancer and bronchitis cases that are directly linked to the inhalation of polluted air.