After years of rapid development, becoming one of the major drivers of India's $ 3,000 billion economy, the country's tech-centric ...
After years of rapid development, becoming one of the major drivers of India's $ 3,000 billion economy, the country's tech-centric cities face serious problems of overcrowding. number, air pollution ...
Like countless others, Megha Mathur emigrated to Gurgaon City in northern New Delhi in search of a job in technology. And she soon realized she could not stand life here every day having to use the app to check the air quality before going out.
"Living like that causes a lot of fear and stress even though there are many good opportunities for employment" - CNN quoted Ms. Mathur, 27, shared.
Over the past two decades, Gurgaon and Bangalore have exploded into two technology hubs in India that attract millions of job seekers.
Pollution in the city of Gurgaon - Photo: AFP
However, the situation in these cities shows the dilemma that India is facing: rapid development is seriously damaging the environment.
"You will feel like you always live in a battlefield of construction," said Sanjay Gupta, head of the EnglishHelper startup in Gurgaon. This led to an air quality and medical crisis. The problem is most evident in the winter when pollution becomes more severe when the combination of urban haze and burning smoke of farmers in surrounding areas.
With the increasing population and vehicles, the transportation system in these technology cities is also a nightmare. Traffic "contributes" to 40% of the harmful emissions cities in India over the years.
"The most worrying thing is that there seems to be no immediate solution. The whole city is like building for 10 people and we put 10,000 people in there," said Mahesh Pratap Singh, a staff of a Gurgaon company. will.
In addition, these cities also suffer from a common problem of lack of water when the water demand is much higher than the capacity of the underground water.
With the goal of further developing manufacturing and technology to eradicate poverty, India will continue to build more factories, offices and more vehicles.
The nation of 1.3 billion has set ambitious goals such as using 40% of energy from renewable energy sources by 2030. However, India remains one of the largest oil importers in the world. and more than half of the energy still comes from coal.
Many businesses have begun to contribute to addressing the environmental crisis. "We are at the stage of making large-scale alternatives that people can accept," Singh said.
However, Aditya Ghosh, the leader of OYO, said that companies can only really start to change to protect the environment "as consumers increasingly require and technology costs to implement things. that drops ".
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