INCREASING TOXICITY IN INDIA’S ENVIRONMENT

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Recently Indian scientists at an Indian Science Conference unfolded the fact that science and industrialization influences the environment a lot. Dr AK Chaudhary said that research studies point out to the fact that the partial cause of males losing their fertility capacity is abnormal changes created in human cells via toxic chemicals.

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Large scale industries were set up far and wide from this standpoint that via self propelling technology good quality and cheap goods can be manufactured. These were exported to foreign countries and thus rare foreign currency of great value was generated. Via this wealth required materials are demanded and thus the wheel of progress moves swiftly.

From one standpoint all this is correct yet along with it since other many obstacles and dire situations are conjoined they too are not such that they can be ignored. Earning with one hand and wasting it vainly with the other creates tiredness and despair only. Lest in comparison to production with the same effort more hazards manifest then this effort for so called development can only be called non farsighted and that those who take such important decisions shall definitely be faulted for their one-sided thinking.

In India big industries have been set up in cities. This trend commenced on aping western countries during the preliminary days of the industrial revolution. Under those situations only this was possible. From the viewpoint of means for transportation,INCREASING TOXICITY IN INDIA’S ENVIRONMENT Articles electricity generation, water areas etc in those days, only big cities were apt for setting up industries. Further people immersed in magnifying industrial output along with the entire system resided there and within the measure of their reach they desired to make efforts in nearby regions so that industrial management could be rendered optimally sound.

In the past few centuries the trend of industrial growth commenced in leading nations like England, America, Germany, Japan and France. On noting their success other countries too followed in their footsteps and in their lands by setting up that kind of industrial casts took their step forward. India too is one amongst these. As far as following in others’ footsteps big industries were set up yet the circumstances of India were not as conducive for it as it was in western countries. There was only a tiny labor force. In rural areas there is no dearth of laborers. Hence for them it was imperative to set up factories with self propelling machines requiring very less human labor. Along with this for export there was a need of ports. Hence if they chose regions with such conduciveness for setting up industries then their decision in those days can be called apt only.

Yet the circumstances of India are different. 78% of India’s population resides in villages. Only 22% people dwell in urban areas. Since cities are centralized areas there urban facilities and development process is high in stature. Thus growth there continues at its own pace. The requirement was that in India focus should have been towards rural areas. On noting its poverty, illiteracy, joblessness and backward condition focus should have been on true India’s special circumstances and while setting up industries it should have been kept in mind that in the greed for amassing foreign exchange should have been given secondary spot and that in order to raise poor people in large chunks of regions in India well below the poverty line to a higher financial stature, the vision of setting up of industries in such rural areas should have been given prime importance.

India’s goods get exported to foreign countries and in return foreign exchange is amassed. In comparison to this decision this thinking is not bad that hungry Indian citizens get jobs. Their stature can be raised higher and that manufactured goods can fulfill their needs also. In the absence of foreign exchange life can go on somehow yet the fact that both hands of our citizens get jobs cannot be ignored. In India this verily should have been the policy of industrialization. There is no problem that we followed rich developed countries yet at least later this trend should have been changed wherein by inhabiting smaller towns there such small scale industries should have been set up whereby their produced goods would have been sold in those very areas. When manufactured goods are in excess there barter and trade with other regions has to be executed. Thus transportation arrangements have to be made and so many roads have to be constructed which would render rural areas less backward than they are today.

Thus urban population would not have augmented as it has today and since means for housing, cleaning etc are not available as much as is the demand for them many distortions are cropping up like enduring hardships, losing good bodily-mental health etc. Since there is hope of getting jobs in areas oozing with big industries jobless people of rural areas run to big cities which is quite natural. Wherever industries augment there, jobs shall be easy to get. In this tension the population of highly industrialized metro cities increased so prolifically wherein instead of aiding in that region’s development so many types of dangerous situations cropped up that today it is very difficult to ward them off.

In comparison to other world regions in India’s environment the measure of oxygen predominates. Due to excess air life force and thinking process of Indians is said to be great. It is because of life force that a time existed in ancient world history wherein India was considered the Guru of the world. Scientists based on sound proof have proved that since oxygen and methane is much more in India therefore life on planet earth commenced in India. Excess oxygen proves that life commenced here. Herpin emitted by plants gives us a hint that life’s commencement took place in jungles and not in dry deserts.

But today India’s environment that previously oozed with oxygen is getting toxic day by day and in the near future such an atmosphere is getting created that shall prove to be agony giving.

Recently Indian scientists at an Indian Science Conference unfolded this fact that science and industrialization influences the environment a great deal. Dr AK Chaudhary said that research studies point out to the fact that the partial cause of males losing their fertility capacity is abnormal changes created in human cells via toxic chemicals. In trees plants growing on roadsides enough lead content can be found. This is very bad for our health. Nitrate found in high measure in vegetables disintegrate in the stomach and on taking the form of chemical derivatives create cancer. Those chemicals used to protect food on boiling get disintegrated so as to become poisonous.

Kolkata’s Dr Vanigajra has said regarding harm manifesting due to DDT and other chemicals that greasiness used in food in it DDT used proves very heinous. Its dire effect can be seen on cells.

According to leading scientists that due to industrial pollution River Ganges etc are becoming toxic. Those factories that manufacture alcohol render toxic nearby well waters too.

Plant scientists say that by growing trees that are undesirable a dangerous effect is noted on public health lest this trend continues thus. Due to pollens of plants the atmosphere turns poisonous and allergy based illnesses crop up. Recently so many diseases have come to light that are creations of allergy towards fragrance of plants, flowers, pollen etc. Scientists say that at its root also is terrestrial based chemical pollution.

The rate at which world population is increasing in comparison n fold more is the problem of environmental pollution. It has augmenting in all countries akin to the widening of the mouth of the mythological ogress Sursa. Mankind with the aid of his brain, wealth and skill has set up many factories wherein no doubt benefits accrued yet human culture and civilization alongside also became diseased.

In many big cities of India air pollution has crossed much higher than the danger line demarcated for it. As per a survey conducted by Nagpur’s Central public health engineering institute in New Delhi’s atmosphere the measure of sulfur dioxide is 0.223 microgram per square meter and in Kolkata it is 0.71 microgram. It must be noted that under no circumstances should its measure exceed 0.1 microgram. In highly developed and industrialized areas in a leading country like USA its measure is 0.1 microgram, in Soviet Union and West Germany it is 0.05 microgram.

In the year 1971 the measure of dust emerging from powerhouses and factories in New Delhi was 811 ton per sq mile and in Kolkata it was 590 ton per sq mile whereas in European nations this measure of dust was 150-200 ton per sq mile. This is that reason why people dwelling in industrialized cities get afflicted by ailments pertaining to breathing, respiratory system/lungs and throat allergies. In industrialized cities this dust is most heinous for our eyes, lungs and skin. Regarding this an experimental study program was conducted by Dr VP Sinha and Dr S Pande of Maulana Azad Medical College. They induced a dog each day to inhale diesel smoke for 15 minutes continuously. The result was that after a few weeks in its eyes and lungs deep wounds were seen and in the 6th week the dog died. Similarly another dog was induced each day to inhale kerosene smoke each day for 15 minutes continuously. The same symptoms were noted in this dog too and in the 10th week the dog died.

Air pollution resulting due to burning of coal and mineral oil is engulfing oxygen in itself. In a study by the Indian Weather Science Department it is said that right since 1910 till today in the oxygen of the atmosphere 0.005% decrease has been noted. Along with this since 1900 till today carbon dioxide levels have increased by 13%. Decrease of oxygen and carbon dioxide augmenting has led to an increase of the temperature of our planet earth by 1.5 degree Centigrade.

Dust and smoke emitted by industrial manufacturing, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrocarbons etc have rendered the world environment so toxic that not only living beings but inert materials too are badly affected. Where these poisonous gases kill human beings there crop harvest too dies due to its influence, cloth fibers weaken and lose color, leather and paper turn fragile, rubber loses its elasticity and concrete and construction stones get inflicted by wear and tear prematurely. Due to the dire effects of these gases so many marble monuments in Europe have lost their incomparable beauty.

The bad effects of pollution are witnessed right from animal-birds to wood, stone, humans etc and since this acts like slow poison at a very slow pace, our eyes fails to detect it. When the entire artistic object gets destroyed only then we can infer as to what destroyed it.

From the sculpting standpoint the tombstone of Jaipur’s Sawai Madhosingh II (1699-1743) is considered superb. It is said that only after 300 sculptors in unison worked daily for 18 years ceaselessly that this grand tombstone was created. In it images of various coins, dancers, camels, elephants, processions during festivals and gods/goddesses and the graves of Jaipur’s royal family members too is included. But today due to attacks of pollution very much like symptoms noted in TB patients these too are withering away. Some experts opine that till the year 1957 pollution was not so clearly perceived since its intensity was low. At that time surrounding the grave dense trees, lawns of grass and flower pots were used as decoration. But in the year 1957 after it came under the state govt. protection no longer can one see dense trees, lawns of grass and flower pots etc. Jaipur’s population has today doubled and industries have increased greatly. Hence within a span of 300 years the influence of pollution can now be clearly witnessed on the tombs and marble monuments.

The chief cause of enhancing pollution in the atmosphere could be anything yet its tainted result has to be endured by one and all. From the standpoint of world farsighted discrimination the culprits shall definitely be those who set up large sized factories and industries even if while creating them their intentions were not bad. It could be that at that hour they failed to gauge manifestation of dire situations in future times. Hence keeping in mind their mental state and circumstances in those days we can say they are not to blame yet we shall perforce have to unearth ways to troubleshoot hazardous situations being faced the world over. Especially regarding this we Indians must definitely analyze our circumstances and well beforehand imbibe that caution that shall ward off these hazards.