90% breathe toxic air globally, Kanpur, Delhi among most polluted; updates

Besides Kanpur, three other cities in Uttar Pradesh - Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi also made to the list of most polluted cities in world

The World Health Organization (WHO) in its pollution report on Wednesday ranked 14 Indian cities among world’s 15 most polluted cities in the world with Kanpur being the most affected based on PM2.5 levels in 2016. While Gwalior stood second in the chart, other cities like Delhi, Varanasi Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Patna, Agra, Muzaffarpur, Srinagar, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Patiala and Jodhpur also featured in the list. The study ranked 4,300 cities in 108 countries across the world.

On the basis of PM10 levels, 13 cities in India figured among the 20 most-polluted cities of the world in 2016.

The WHO data