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If the Beijing Olympic committee, is to be believed, air quality has improved from 100 good air-quality days in 1998 to 241 good air-quality days in 2006. In a radical antipollution measure, the host has barred millions of vehicles from the streets of Beijing. Other measures include upgradation of vehicle emission standards and planting of 28 million trees. Furthermore, close to 200 of the most venomous factories & power plants have been moved or shut, five major coal-fired power plants are being upgraded & Beijing’s first wind-power station construction is underway. Cloudseeding is another measure resorted to wherein the timely launch of chemicals into the atmosphere will dispel clouds and help control time & place of rainfall. New Delhi is certainly paying attention as it prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010. States Dr. Lalit Lumar Bhanot, Secretary General, Commonwealth Games to 4Ps,B&M, “The Beijing Olympics 2008 will be more of a summer game & hence their precautionary measures in terms of pollution control & a more scientific measure of cloud seeding. Even our Science & Technology ministry is keeping us informed of all such developments and helping us roll up everything on time.”
Environmentalists, however, argue that many of the measures adopted are short-term and shortsighted. Amidst such a milieu, human rights as well as political activists can always play spoilsport. Dissidents will champion the cause as to how glories have been built on the carcasses of ordinary lives. And ,while China may prove a perfect host for the Olympics next summer, there could be a negative fallout of massive proportions it may find hard to manage. In such an instance, publicity could instead become the dragon’s greatest undoing.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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