Gurgaon First to hold workshop on how to tackle poor air quality
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Gurgaon First to hold workshop on how to tackle poor air quality

The workshop, to be held at DLF Club IV, will be attended by RWA members, schoolchildren, green ambassadors, environment science teachers and environmental groups.  

Gurgaon First to hold workshop on how to tackle poor air quality

India is back in the news, and not for happy reasons. First, it slipped three notches to 100 among 119 countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) of 2017. And now, according to Global Burden of Disease (GBD), a comprehensive WHO-led regional and global research programme, the country reports 620,000 premature deaths every year owing to air pollution!

The report states that respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are the key reasons for air pollution-induced premature deaths. These diseases include stroke (25.48 percent), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17.32 percent), Ischemic heart disease (48.6 percent), lower respiratory infections (6.4 percent), and trachea, bronchus and lung cancer (2.02 percent).

All this and much more will be discussed at a workshop to be held tomorrow at DLF Club IV by Gurgaon First. The workshop has been christened "Tackling Deteriorating Air Quality in Gurugram".

Experts in the field of environment will discuss various strategies to deal with the thick blanket of smog that develops every year in Delhi-NCR around this time. There will be discussions on what can be done at the community and individual levels to tackle this menace. The workshop will also release exclusive air pollution data of Gurgaon before and after Diwali. Doctors will talk on how residents can protect themselves from the negative impacts of poor air quality. 

Some of the speakers of the workshop include Anumita Roy Chowdhary, executive director, Centre for Science and Environment; Amit Bhatt, director, World Resources Institute; and Dr Vivel Nangia, head, pulmonary diseases, Fortis Healthcare.  

The workshop will be attended by RWA members and schoolchildren. In fact, they will form the bulk of the participants. Green ambassadors, environment science teachers and environmental groups will be guided on how to tackle the situation at the ground level.