‘India will resolve pollution issue sooner than Beijing’: Centre

New Delhi: The Centre on Friday asserted in Lok Sabha that it would resolve air pollution issued in less time compared to Beijing, which took 15 years in solving the problem. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar made the announcement while speaking in Lok Sabha during a discussion on ‘air pollution and climate change’ which continued for the third day on Friday.

“Beijing took 15 years to solve pollution problem, we will take less time compared to them and for which we will do a united effort,” Javadekar said in his around half-hour address to the House on the issue, which was initiated by Congress’ Manish Tewari on Tuesday. The discussion resumed on Thursday on the second day.

Stressing on the need to develop a mentality of planning trees, awareness in public and a movement to adopt those measures which reduces pollution, the Minister said a national knowledge network is there in the country in which all scientists sit together and inspect new technology to deal with pollution problem.

“India will lead in climate change and get free from air pollution very soon,” Javadekar said. Sharing a calculation that a person needs Oxygen for whole life which is produced by seven trees, Javadekar said we should take a pledge to plant seven trees to construct Oxygen bank for oneself.

Noting that trees consume carbon from the environment, the Minister said the government will plant trees for growing more forests in coming 10 years which will be equivalent to 2.5 billion of carbons. “This is a very big target and such aim was not put by any country in the world in regards to forest increase.”

In the last four years, Javadekar said around 13,000 square metre green cover has been increased in our country, and declared that the green cover of only two countries is increasing in the world including India.(IANS)

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