Air in Raipur

Apart from COPD, air pollution also raises risk of cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes prevalence. Air pollution contributes to about 4-5% of diabetes cases in India.
 “Air pollution is an endocrine disruptor; it gets into the blood and impacts the hormones. It damages the beta cells in the pancreas that produces insulin...” said Dr Vishwanathan Mohan, lead author of the paper on diabetes in Lancet.  (India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Diabetes ... the Global Burden .. Study 1990–2016. published in 2018. )
Also see http://www.cghr.org/projects/million-death-study-project/

Urban Emissions in Raipur can be seen at Open Sense (SHRC Indoors), at an international map or at Grafana 10 Cities data. Further data about SHRC outdoors is available and an older monitor is on its way to Korba. 
You can see a map of India with all Atmos data too

Air

Significant Findings of Urban Emissions site http://www.urbanemissions.info/india-apna/raipur-india/

• Modeled urban average ambient PM2.5 concentration is 82.3 ± 21.8 μg/m3 – is more than 2 times the national standard (40) and more than 8 times the WHO guideline (10)
• The modeled source contributions highlight the heavy industries (mostly steel), followed by transport (including on road dust), domestic cooking and heating, industries, open waste burning, and influence of outside sources, as the key air pollution sources in the urban area
• The city has an estimated 26% of the ambient annual PM2.5 pollution (in 2015) originating outside the urban airshed, which suggests that some regional interventions could reduce the pollution loads. This contribution is mostly stemming from coal-fired power plants, large (metal and non-metal processing) industries, and brick kilns located outside the urban airshed
  • Recommendations
  • The city requires at least 19 continuous air monitoring stations to statistically, spatially, and temporally, represent the mix of sources and range of pollution in the city (current status – 2 manual and 0 continuous
  • Brick kilns can benefit from a technology upgrade to (for example) zig-zag and fixed chimney kilns, in order to improve their overall energy efficiency Similarly, the coal-fired power plants need to practice and enforce stricter environmental standards for all the criteria pollutants
  • Raipur needs to aggressively promote public and non-motorized transport as part of the city’s urban development plan, along with the improvement of the road infrastructure to reduce on-road dust re-suspension
  • Open waste burning is dispersed across the city and requires stricter regulations for addressing the issue, as the city generates ever more garbage, with limited capacity to sort and dispose of it.
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