BANGALORE:Choking metro
The silicon valley of India might have blue chip companies instead of smoky factories, but this has certainly not helped the local people breathe easy. H Paramesh, at Lakeside Medical Centre, Bangalore, conducted a study on 20,000 children under the age of 18 years admitted to the hospital between 1979-1999. The increased prevalence of asthma correlated with the increased industrial growth, density of population and number of automobiles and consequent resulting air pollution (see