India's top pollution regulator has rejected a global study which claimed that the country records the highest number of early deaths due to surface-level Ozone.
A senior scientist of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) claimed surface-level Ozone formation has in fact come down due to "reduction" in solar radiation and that it stays well within the safe standards in the country.
The State of Global Air report 2017, released last month, stated that surpassing China, India witnessed a 150 per cent rise in the lives lost over the past two decades from Ozone pollutants. The toll in India was 13 times higher than Bangladesh's, and 21 times higher than Pakistan's, it claimed.