Slashing pollution levels across the country by up to 30% can substantially reduce the burden of ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, anaemia and low birth weight among women and children, said a new assessment released Tuesday by IIT-Delhi and Climate Trends, a research-based consulting and capacity building initiative.

Data on disease prevalence from National Family Health Survey–5, Indian epidemiological studies on air pollution’s impact on health, and air quality data was used by IIT-D and Climate Trends to launch a ‘health benefit assessment dashboard’, which projects the co-benefits of reducing air pollution on disease prevalence across 641 districts.

Since the dashboard was created using 2011 district boundaries, only 641 districts were included. For the particulate matter (P

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