Question

explain any five causes of air pollution in Calcutta in 19th century?​

Answer 1

Causes are: (i) Huge population depended on dung and wood as fuel in their daily life. (ii) The industries and establishments that used steam engines were run on coal. (iii) In 1855, the introduction of railway brought coal from Raniganj which had high content of ash.

Answer 2

Throughout the 19th century Calcutta was a city full of pollution. The principal contaminants were the factories and the railways. Life in the city has been quite irksome and challenging. The gods too talk of this city in durgacharan novel.

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1. Enormous population in their daily lives relied on dung and wood as food.

2. The coal-fired factories and institutions that used steam engines.

3. The construction of the railway brought in coal from raniganj in 1885 which had a high ash content. This even poisoned the soil.

4. The city's fog combined with smoke to produce dense smog.

5. The resulting fog combined with smoke to create dense smog, due to marshy land.

Bengal smoke Commision Nuisanse regulates industrial emissions in Bengal.