Health Ministry to study deaths due to pollution soon: Dave
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New Delhi: Expressing his reservations on global reports linking deaths to air pollution, Environment Minister Anil Dave said a study will soon be conducted by Health Ministry on the issue.
The Union minister, while iterating his views on various reports linking deaths to air pollution, asserted that a proud nation always believes in its own data.
Noting that such reports are often based on extrapolation "without" due scientific validation, Dave sought to shift the onus to state governments and local bodies, saying tackling air pollution was no "rocket science" and the states and bodies have to play a "decisive" role as the Centre can only work like a "philosopher and guide" to them.
"For sometime now, various reports have come on air quality. There is a speciality in India. We are less influenced by things which are Indian and are influenced by those things coming from outside. There are many serious institutions in India, NGOs, government organisations which do research on this issue.
"And proud country always trusts in its own data and takes action on that. (Tackling) air quality is not a rocket science. What state governments and local bodies have to do, they have been told a number of times. In the future as well they will be told. They just have to work on four or five points," Dave told reporters here.
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