Department of Geography & GIS
Geographical analysis
Year: 2015, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-56
Original Article
Sandhya Kumari R.*, Hanjagi D Ashok **
*Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bangalore.
**Professor, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bangalore
Abstract Air is a lifeline for all living beings and it is impossible to imagine life sustenance on earth without air. The silicon city Bangalore today is stuffed with plethora of burning issues pertaining to environment demanding for solutions at the earliest. Not only helmets but also face masks might be mandatory in Bangalore these days because the air quality is deteriorating. The reasons for this would be increase in number of vehicles, industries, construction activities etc. Among all, the share of vehicles in air pollution is the major. The research paper focuses on vehicles population and its share of pollutants in air quality deterioration, in order to achieve this, relevant data has been collected from various sources and analyzed. The findings of the research show that Bangalore’s air quality has sunk with increase in vehicles. Thanks to rampant and erratic urbanization with its concomitants such as escalation of Human and Vehicular population thereby contributing to Air pollution. Shifting reliance from Petroleum products to other eco-friendly source, bringing awareness among public etc can be a worthy solution.
Key words: Urbanization, Air Quality deterioration, Vehicular Population, Eco Friendly source.
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