While jobs, inflation and unemployment, rightfully, are the subject of discussion and polarised debates, unfortunately, air pollution does not even figure on anyone’s list of urgencies.

Patna ranked second in India for pollution, with an AQI of 316, categorised as'very poor'. Greater Noida, UP, claimed the top spot with an AQI of 346, as per the 4 p.m. bulletin from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

World Air Quality Report ranks India third in the list of most polluted countries in the world with 42 cities in the top 50, but no one’s paying attention Hardly any noise came from the corridors of power at the grim news of India’s jump up the ranks from the eighth most polluted country in 2022 to third, after Bangladesh and Pakistan, in the World Air Quality Report 2023 released recently by Swiss air quality monitoring body IQ Air