STORY | India sets its own air standards; global rankings not official: Govt
The government on Thursday told Parliament that global air quality rankings cited by various organisations are not conducted by any official authority and that the World Health Organisation's (WHO) air quality guidelines serve only as advisory values, not binding standards.
Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha on India's position in global indices such as IQAir's World Air Quality Ranking, the WHO Global Air Quality Database, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) metrics, the Environment Ministry said no official country-wise pollution ranking is carried out worldwide.
Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said the WHO's guidelines are meant to help countries set their own standards, taking into account geography, environmental conditions, background levels and national circumstances.
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Don't get fooled by bad math.This graph compares percentage growth rates rather than actual progress.
It's "base effect" distortion.
1 ➔ 10 = 900% growth (added 9)
100 ➔ 500 = 400% growth (added 400)
Adding 400 is objectively bigger, but this chart uses "percentage of percentages" to make the 9 look superior because it started near zero.
So it's completely designed to make the earlier govt look better.
Now judge yourself and your maths.
How much of India's infrastructure was built after 2014?
• 100% of Dedicated Freight Corridors
• 98% of Solar Capacity
• 85% of the Expressway Network
• 79% of Tap Water Access
• 75% of Metro Rail
• 71% of Port Capacity
• 69% of Railway Electrification
• 60% of 4-Lane National Highways
Infrastructure is built over decades.
But some decades build more than others.
@HPhobiaWatch It might get passed this session but with amendments, modi govt isn't in its strong phase anymore to pass it in one go, and after amendments these bills wont remain strong
@bryan_johnson Good that you realised this Bryan,
One of bollywood's late actor rajesh khanna's most iconic dialog was
Hindi : " बाबू मोशाय जिंदगी बड़ी होनी चाहिए लंबी नहीं... "
Translation : " dude, life should be great, not long"
is perfect advice for you, hope u got it.
Iranian woman in Sweden:
“Pedophilia is legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Little girls are married off to adult men.
We’re trying to raise awareness, but Western feminists are completely ignoring us.”
If you had resigned after UGC regulations, you would've saved yourself this humiliation.
But you never cared about General Category and that's exactly what came back to bite you today!
@elitepredatorss@achinamayya Govt should force social media platforms to use algorithms, which serves user 60% content based on user's prefrence,likes and intrest
and minimum 40% different content.
As it prevents people falling in extreme idea sets which are algorithm fed, and they use critical thinking
I have been in this game for far too long to understand when things are not normal. As rightly pointed out by @achinamayya.
Meta will restore the feed now because they knew their chance of brewing a revolution is now over. You can't convince me that they have not tempered the algorithm.
But this should not go unanswered. @AshwiniVaishnaw@AmitShah
You guys can start with a report proving feed manipulation and drag these Meta guys to court. It leads to multiple levers, including a few in the upcoming data centre in Gujarat.
@chixxsays Instagram is a platform made to follow ongoing trend, you'll never find rational people with own thought process over there, its just
a engagement farmer's club
@indic_wing@NewsAlgebraIND Everyone has personal intrest,he's main reason for protest is for ladhak stuck situation after art. 370 and art.35 A removal,where he and govt. both somewhat right,for same reason he did hunger strike earlier in ladhak but didn't recive covrage,this time he rightly chose delhi