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most 15 million cases a yearcan be At present, the penalties for vehicle Union minister of communication and
attributed to air pollution, both out owners allowing a juvenile to drive is information technology Ravi Shankar
doors and indoors. Car exhaust as well only Rs 500 fine or three months im prasad launched a pilot project In
as dusty homes could be the culprits, prisonment or both. Mathura for delivery of Prasad by
said the latest analysis of the Global speed post. The service will be initially
Burden of Disease Study 2013 done by Underage brides down available for only Western UP and
the Institute for Health Metrics and from 44% to 30% in 10 yrs: NCR. If it is successful, it will be ex
Evaluation. Census panded to the rest of the country, ac
cording to officials.
Considering that New Delhi and There has been a dramatic decline in
Mumbai register among the world's child marriages in India, across various Manisha Sinha, postmaster general,
highest levels of air pollution, experts religious communities and even among Agra division, said the service would be
says the new link is ominous. "The Lan less educated sections, Census 2011 available from six temples and once it
cet study concludes that 90% of the data reveals. The share of girls getting is operational, orders for prasad could
factors causing stroke can be modified married before reaching the legal mar be placed both online and through
and controlled, but what about air riage age of 18 years fell steeply from phone.
pollution? It isn't possible to reduce 44 per cent in 2001 to 30 per cent in
such high levels of air pollution soon," 2011, a proportion still alarmingly high. Centre looks to outsource
said neurologist Dr Shirish Hastak, its troubles in cleaning the
former president of the Indian Stroke Hindus and Muslims have almost the Ganga
Association. Already, between 3,000 same proportion of belowlegal age
and 4,000 Indians suffer a stroke every marriages of girls at about 31 per cent, Unable to achieve a breakthrough in its
day, say extrapolations made by the down from 4345 per cent a decade project to clean up the Ganga, the
Indian Stroke Association. ago. Sikhs and Christians have the low central government has now come out
est share of underage girls getting with a plan to hire private contractors
Traffic penalty set to Rs married, at 1112 per cent, with the to remove any waste found floating in
20k for juvenile driver Jain community only slightly more at 16 the river.
per cent.
The group of state transport ministers The plan is to remove flowers, coco
ratified Rs 20,000 fine or three years While Buddhists continue to be more nuts, plastic bottles and bags, food
imprisonment or both for owner of a in line with Hindus and Muslims, with packets, dead bodies (human and ani
vehicle, if it is used by a juvenile driver. 28 per cent underage girls getting mal), algae, logs, bamboos, other
married, among communities of other wood material, water hyacinth, other
There was consensus that a juvenile religious persuasions including Parsis aquatic plants and any other floating
driver involved in a crash resulting in and all ancient tribal faiths the pro waste from the river in the five states
death should be a nonbailable offence portion is about 24 per cent, down it passes throughUttarakhand, Uttar
and the offender juvenile must not get from 36 per cent. Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West
a driving licence for a vehicle with Bengal.
gears until he is 21. After Gangajal, now
Mathura's 'prasad' by post Cleaning up the Ganga is one of the
While the ministers have given a go major promises made by Prime Minis
ahead to the proposed increase in pen After Gangajal, the Indian postal de ter Narendra Modi, who famously
alty for all general and major traffic partment is all set to deliver 'prasad' called the river his mother, in the run
offences to rein in errant drivers, they from important temple. In Mathura up to the 2014 general election. How
have also favoured "doubling fines" in and Vrindavan, including Banke Bihari, ever, even after two years in power,
case a traffic police officer, transport Radha Rani, Dwarkadhish and Krishna the Modiled National Democratic Al
departments official or any law enforc Janmasthan, by Speed post to door liance (NDA) government's Clean
ing officer is caught violating norms. steps. Ganga mission has failed to take off.
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