THE FUEL BURNING STATION BENGALURU
THE FUEL BURNING STATION BENGALURU
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:)In today's article I am going to discuss with you all about effect of Pollution by vehicle in Bengaluru.
We know that India is a developing country, here everyone looking forward to sustaining in there life with money, so for that, no one is much care about other even themself also. To earn something to lead a life, a vast rural population migrated to urban cities like Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad after the 1991 economic growth.
Now everyone got a source of income to lead a life in these urban cities, but to live a healthy and sustainable life there are no supportive facilities available in urban, like
-High density of population.
-Scarcity of water.
-High cost of living.
-Adulteration of food.
-Poor air quality & so on.
As above mentioned, even a basic essential need to live, that is breathing Air is also poor in these urban cities. I am also living in Bengaluru right, So in this article, I would like to cover some aspects which I observed in my day-to-day life regarding poor air condition caused by vehicles in Bengaluru with the support of my knowledge level best research.
>Let's start the discussion without wasting much time.
Based on the following contents, I would like to discuss this Article ' THE FUEL BURNING STATION BENGALURU'.
1. Introduction to Air pollution
2. Causes for Air pollution
3. Focus on vehicular Air pollution
4. Air pollution in Bengaluru
5. Present AQI & measures of AQI (Bengaluru)
6. Effect of vehicular pollution
7. Measure to be taken to reduce Vehicular pollution
8. Conclusion
Note:- AQI ( Air Quality Index) tool used to measure air quality.
1. Introduction to air pollution
Air pollution mean exposed hazardous gases from human activities like industrial works, construction of buildings, and vehicle movement, which leads to poor air quality.
'In view of management student, I can say that air pollution is a bad condition that leads to economic losses, especially in the sense of financial resources that are required for giving medical assistance to the affected people'
As per the report of Green Peace India-2022, air pollution data of 10 cities (from November 2020-November 2021)- Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Amaravathi, Vishakapatnam, Kochi, Mangaluru, Puducherry, Coimbatore, & Mysuru.
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| Source: Green peace India web |
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| Source: Green peace India web |
2. Causes for air pollution
Air pollution is one of the serious environmental concern of urban Asian cities including India where the majority of the population is exposed to poor air quality.
Here are some of the major contributors to air pollution.
- The rapid urbanisation.
- Tremendeous increase in motor vehicles.
- Waste burning.
- Building construction.
- Industrial gases.
3. Focus on vehicular Air pollution
Vehicle pollution means, the introduction of harmful material into the environment by motor vehicles.
The pollution from vehicles has become a serious problem. The pollution from vehicles leads to health issues like cough, headache, irritation of the eyes, & visibility problem.
The reasons for increasing vehicular pollution problems in urban India are as follows.
-High vehicle density in Indian urban cities
-Older vehicles/scraped vehicles.
-High private vehicles, cars, and two-wheelers.
-Poor planning in urban land development.
-Adulteration of fuel & fuel products.
-Poor road conditions.
-High level of pollution at traffic junctions.& so on.
4. Air pollution in Bengaluru
According to environmentalists "A major share of Bengaluru's air pollution is caused by vehicular traffic, between 2015-21, the city saw an 80% rise in respiratory illness by air pollution. And also air pollution is highly connected to industrial pollution areas like Peenya industrial area & Mysore road in Bengaluru.
From now I would like to focus on vehicle pollution in Bengaluru.
Specific measures:-
-PM10 & PM2.5 are the primary pollutants in Bengaluru.
i.e. PM10- Particular matter/ dust, acids & metals created by vehicles
PM2.5- Tiny particular/fog in the air that reduce visibility and cause the air to appear unclear.
[Note:- In Bengaluru PM10 dust particular and PM2.5 fog creates 42% of pollution & dust arises by the movement of vehicle creat 20% of pollution, which means by transportation more than 50% of pollution is created!]
Following charts shows the contribution of vehicles to air pollution in Bengaluru.
5. Present AQI & measures of AQI
AQI- Air Quality Index.
Air Quality Index(AQI) is the tool used to measure the air quality of a particular region.
Here I would like to share the AQI tracking system weblink of the central pollution control board, you can go through it and check your city's air quality. CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD-AQI. <-Link.
The following table shows the measures of AQI according to air pollution level:
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| Source;aqicn.org |
Now, look into the Bengaluru air quality index score in the following picture.
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| Source; Times of India web |
-Above chart saws represent, there is a high/peak air pollution in evening 6:00PM to 8:00PM.
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-In this chart we can notice that on the weekends(14th) average AQI are higher then normal day, due to -High tourists were visited. -Return back to & from Bengaluru. |
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[Note: 15.4 means 15th April & 13.5 means- 13th May] This chart shows same as above Last 7days chart; In weekends AQI are high. |
Now if we look into the causes/effects of vehicular pollution we can identify them as follows.
- Global warming- Increases in atmosphere temperature.
- Poor air quality- High dust particles leads to headache, cough, and lung cancer.
- Reduced visibility- Due to high fog causes low visibility and eye irritation.
- It affects on tourism- Because of high pollution tourists step back to visit.
- It results in Acid rain- Heavy emission of CO2, Co, and CNG results in acid rain in the future.
7. Measure to be taken to reduce Vehicular pollution
Now challenge in front of us is to take sufficient and effective steps to reduce pollution as much as possible, so for that, we need to take the following precautions.
- Drive less- Use cycles- walk- use the public transportation- share one vehicle instead of each using their own.
- Government intervention- Improvising of Metro & sub-urban trains, improvement of road quality- providing parking facilities.
- Invest in zero-emission vehicles- Investment in EV(Electric Vehicles)- Emission filtration system adoption BS4 &BS6.
- Civic education- Sharing pollution awareness videos- organizing camps, and rallies, including pollution awareness topics at the school and college level.
- Discarding old vehicles- Scrap the 20 years old cars & 15 years old commercial vehicles.
- Developing fuel economic standards- Policy on fuel adulteration, fuel grades.
8. Last words(conclusion)
To conclude this article I would like to say that, in this economic developing country, over the last 2 decades vehicle numbers increased widely.
The following chart shows Bengaluru's vehicles in percentage
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| Source: The city fix web |
Now after we came to know about the problem we are facing by this vehicular pollution, we must and should need to take smaller measures from every individual side to reduce pollution as much as possible by - Using public transportation, cycling & walking, why because we have only one planet called Earth to live, all we need to protect it as much as in all possible ways with proactive in every action we have taken it could be reduce both vehicle pollution and population.
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