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Jairam Ramesh demands clean air reforms, says right to breathe more fundamental than ease of doing business
Published: 09/11/26 06:30
New Delhi | India
New Delhi, Nov 9 (UNI) Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi government over what he described as its persistent denial of the devastating public health consequences of air pollution, citing a new FICCI-EY report which estimates that nearly two million people died in India in 2023 due to pollution-related causes. Calling for urgent and comprehensive policy reforms, he argued that the right to breathe clean air was far more fundamental than the government's emphasis on improving the ease of doing business. In a strongly worded post on social media platform X, Ramesh…