Empirical analysis of life quality based on air pollution in states of India

Rapid Urbanisation resulted in marked increase in air pollution across the states of India. With burgeoning population and vehicular congestion on roads, land use pattern is changed depleting the green cover and affecting quality of human life. This paper comprises of comparative studies on states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Delhi, NCR on environmental factors, socioeconomic and demographic factors to analyse the quality of human life vis-a-vis air pollution which has cause and effect relation with associated factors. Results from Correlation and time series analysis indicates that Delhi NCR region has lowest quality of human life primarily due to higher concentration of pollutants, larger migrant population, high mortality due to pollution induced diseases, lesser green cover but higher per capita net state domestic product as compared to other states under study.