Two of the 10-most-polluted spots on earth are in India, according to a report by the US-based Blacksmith Institute. The institute’s advisory board which includes environmental and public health experts from institutions like Harvard, MIT, IIT-Delhi and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has picked Sukinda valley in Orissa and Vapi in Gujarat as 4th and 5th in the list of the top 10 worldwide. The top 10 have been picked from what the institute calls the “Dirty Thirty”, a larger list of the 30 worst polluted areas in different parts of the world. Not surprisingly, the list is dominated by fast-growing economies. Four Indian cities and six cities each from Russia and China are among them. The bad news for India is that neither Sukinda nor Vapi, or indeed, any other place in India was in the top 10 in the 2006 report by the same institute. Sukinda has the largest chromite ore deposits in India and also has the largest opencast chromite mine in the world.
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