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The unusually high concentration of particulate matter in the last few days in India clearly shows that air pollution is emerging as a big problem.

As the climate gets warmer and frequency of rains reduces, such spurts in coarse particles making breathing difficult will become a new normal and the government is not waking up to the alarm.

Both the periodicity and duration of dry spells in the country were rising as total rainfall events in a year had fallen even though the average rainfall in a year has not changed much, a direct consequence of climate change.

The annual average rainfall has remained the same because the frequency of heavy downpours increased in the past two decades.

The air quality in the region deteriorated because of dust storms in western India, particularly Rajasthan