India’s junior health minister Prataprao Jadhav’s admission in Parliament that the Union government does not have the data on the deaths and diseases occurring due to air pollution should leave the country gasping in disbelief.

Delhi, the national capital, alone has ranked at the top of the list of the world’s most polluted capitals for years now, and more than half of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities happen to be in India, and the medical fraternity across the country has provided anecdotal evidence that the abysmal quality of air has taken its toll on people’s health.

In short, air pollution has been decidedly a health crisis for a few years. That the government has not........

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