Delhi air pollution risks children, youth; 8 of 10 with poor lung capacity

27 per cent of deaths in India were caused due to pollution, making it the country with the highest number of pollution-related deaths, followed by China

In New Delhi, India’s capital and its most polluted city, eight of every 10 children and youth below 20 years of age living in areas with constantly polluted air have poor lung capacity, according to a study by Hazards Center, a Delhi-based advocacy.

These findings come at a time when data on the health effects of air pollution are being denied by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. There were no conclusive data to establish a direct or exclusive correlation between death/disease and air pollution,