Use the power of the Air Act to fight pollution

What is required is political will to wield legal authority

The mind-numbing results of a major global study released last week by the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation highlight once again the severity of the air pollution crisis in India.
 
The problem is not that India has made no effort to reduce air pollution. Air-quality monitoring across the country has been stepped up. Emission standards for power plants have been proposed although they are in danger of being diluted or delayed. Perhaps most important, the central government mandated that new passenger and transport vehicles meet BS VI emission standards by 2020, and lowered