Urban Ambient Air Pollution In Latur City

Air Pollution is essentially an urban phenomenon as the processes of urbanization and industrialization are intimately related. Now a day’s ‘Air Pollution’ is rated as the root cause of several problems in the modern city living and it is increasing alarmingly though planners/authorities are trying to douse it by all means. The high density of population and industries in the cities contributes to industrial emissions affecting adversely, the health and property of in habiting citizens. Inadequate public transport system, poor road conditions, congested traffic and outdated automotive technologies have further aggravated the situation. The impacts are however dependent on factors like height of stacks, wind flow and direction, ambient temperature, humidity and other related factors. High rise buildings close to roads in metropolitan cities coupled with heavy traffic movement hinder the dispersal of pollutants and, increase in urban noise level, together impart a suffocating effect on city dwellers. In this paper I highlights on the status of Air pollution in Latur city