Abstract
Ensuring clean air quality for the population is a priority consideration in many metro cities of the world particularly in middle- and low-income group South Asian cities. Urban population are exposed to various pollutants from vehicular and industrial sources. In a typical urban area, its population are exposed to more than 100 different chemical species. An extensive literature review has established the link between exposure to the classical pollutants and ill-health endpoints ranging from increases in asthma attacks, increases in acute bronchitis and decreased lung function to hospital admissions for respiratory-cardiovascular diseases and congestive heart failure. Communicating air quality through air quality index (AQI) system has become one of the major tools of air pollution information systems and is widely used for local and regional air quality management in many metro cities of the world. The metropolitan city of Delhi is the capital of India and is considered among one of the most polluted cities of the world. The study analyse the air quality for the City of Delhi, India with the help of AQI system proposed by EPA. A significant correlation was observed between air quality data with health data.
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Maji, S., Ahmed, S., Ghosh, S., Garg, S.K., Sheikh, T. (2020). Role of Particulate Matter on Air Quality Assessment of Delhi. In: Ahmed, S., Abbas, S., Zia, H. (eds) Smart Cities—Opportunities and Challenges. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 58. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2545-2_7
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