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ABSTRACT
ir is the necessary for the very existence of human beings, animals and plants that appeared on the earth. However, due to the rapid growth of population and technology the air was polluted day by day. In 2011, India's Central Pollution Control Board had presented the report according to which 180 cities in India had particulate matter six times more than the permissible limit set by the World Health Organization in the air. Vehicles, biomass burning, fuel tarnishing are few of the major causes of air pollution in India. The problem of air pollution is so big that we cannot manage to pay for overlook it. As such it has to be handled with a high degree of care. This paper focuses on causes, effects of air pollutions in India and steps to solve the problems and policy measures to ensure reduce air pollution to the entire resident of earth. This study mainly descriptive in nature and secondary data are used for the purpose of the study. The data was collected from books, various articles, journals and websites.
KEYWORDS: Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution and Pollutants
INTRODUCTION
In the recent decades every man are should be fight every day against various environmental pollutions such as Air, Noise, Water, Land etc. Air is one of the five essentials for the human beings. Particularly men breathe nearly 22,000 times a day and in hale approximately 15 kg of air per day. Even though the air is abundantly available over the surface of earth, but It consist a lot of impurities. Various types of contaminants are entering into the atmosphere of the earth by natural and manmade activities, which are taking place on the earth. CONCEPTS AND DEFINITION OF AIR POLLUTION
Air pollution can be defined as the presence of the contamination in the outdoor atmosphere in a sufficient quantity and duration to cause them to be injurious to human health and welfare and plant and animal life and to interfere with the enjoyment of life and property.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) Air Pollution is the outer atmosphere of substances or contaminants put there by man in quantities and concentrations and of a duration as to cause any discomfort to a substantial number of inhabitants...