Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar urged the scientists and experts to evolve cleaner, affordable and easily accessible technology to check all kinds of pollution and suggest alternatives for a pollution free society.
Addressing a national conference on air pollution organised by Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) on Tuesday, Modi said that public was still not very aware and cautious about the pollution and sources of pollution remained unchecked.
He said the per capita carbon emission in India was lowest still there was need for the ways to control pollution and clean water and air.
Modi offered to hold the conference of the State Ministers of Environment in Patna and promised to enhance the number of manual monitoring stations to capture air quality data in Bihar.
He also stressed on the need to ban the production of polythene sheets and pressure horns which cause multiple pollution.
The Deputy CM thanked the PM for introducing and popularisin lED bulbs.
ADRI member secretary Saibal Gupta said Patna was becoming most polluted city even though theere was no industry in its vicinity.
He said if Bihar becomes pollution free society there could be flood of investment and it would have longivity and quality of life.
CEO of CEED Ramapati Kumar said poor air quality was caausing public health nightmares. States must work collaboratively to formulate a concrete Regional Clean Air Action Plan with water tight policies and well defined ntsecure breathable air in the Indo-Gangetic region.
Air pollution, said Abhishek Pratap of CEED , claims about 3 million deaths annually and affects 35 million living across 29 cities in the Indo-Gangetic region. Anumita Roy Chowdhary of Centre for Science and Environment said vehicles were responsible for very high toxic exposure with erious health conequences in the cities.