Deaths, diseases attributed to air pollution in India led to 1.4% GDP loss in 2019: Study
The findings in the paper highlight that while the disease burden due to household air pollution is reducing in India, the same has increased due to ambient outdoor air pollution. Updated: December 22, 2020 11:18:39 pm
The findings reported in the paper are part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.(Representational)
As many as 1.7 million deaths in India 18 per cent of the total deaths in the country were attributable to air pollution in 2019. The economic impact of this health loss due to lost productivity was huge, resulting in 1.4 per cent loss in the country’s GDP in 2019, which is equivalent to Rs 260,000 crore (US$ 36.8 billion), a new study has said.
MSP the factoids versus the facts
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December 19, 2020 10:00 IST
The debate on agricultural issues must take into account the changed geography of procurement and the seller’s profile
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The debate on agricultural issues must take into account the changed geography of procurement and the seller’s profile
According to one definition, a factoid is “an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact”. After the passage of the three controversial farm laws, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) not mentioned in the laws has gained a lot of attention. The predominance of factoids about MSP and procurement has meant that the debate has yielded more chaff than grain.