To address the rising air pollution in Pune, city-based NGO, Parisar, has urged Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to implement a time-bound plan to ensure that each ward has at least one gas or electric cremation facility, while also promoting the use of environment-friendly cremation facilities and bringing a check on the burning of waste.

Parisar representative Shweta Vernekar, on behalf of the Pune Air Action Hub, said the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) should support its ongoing activity of distribution of information pamphlets at hospitals and pass centres, while giving the death pass containing details of the locations of electric and gas crematoria in each ward.

“Work on a time-bound plan to ensure that each ward in Pune has at least one gas or electric cremation facility, with

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