JNU Professor Advocates Emission Taxes for India

Professor Sangeeta Bansal from JNU spoke at a conference about air pollution in India.

She said that the Indo-Gangetic Plains, which include places like Delhi, have a lot of pollution because they are like a sunken area surrounded by mountains.

This makes it hard for the pollution to go away.

She suggested that the government should make it more expensive for companies to operate in these highly polluted areas.

This would encourage them to move to less polluted places.

She also said that reducing pollution from things like vehicles, power plants, and household biofuels would be costly but the benefits would be big, especially for people's health.

She emphasized that air pollution should be a part of health policy, not just environmental policy.