The air quality of Pune that is mainly regulated by particulate pollutants (PM2.5 and PM10) have both seen a considerable rise in the past seven years, according to a joint report by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences along with Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) and the expert advice of Sarojkumar Sahu of Utkal University. According to the study, PM2.5 has seen an increase of 70 per cent while PM10 has seen an increase of 61 per cent from 2012–13 to 2019–20 in Pune. One of the major contributing factors to this rise in pollution is the enormous growth of vehicles during the past seven years.
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