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0It says that 79% of hawkers who spend a long time outdoors have suffered damaged lungs. 02br
00Vehicle mechanics working close to car exhaust pipes were next highest - 60% of them suffered from damaged lungs. 02br
00The report says that traffic policemen, drivers and cart pullers who are exposed to vehicle fumes for long hours also suffer from damaged lungs in large numbers. 02br
00Environmentalist Subhas Dutta filed a public interest litigation in the Calcutta High Court in March this year, alleging that the West Bengal government was doing nothing to control air pollution levels. 02br
00The court ordered the government to reduce vehicle emissions. 02br
00"This is a killer but the government is doing nothing to check it," alleged Mr Dutta. 02br
00In May 2005, the government set a deadline which ordered all vehicles in Calcutta manufactured before 1990 either to be off the roads or convert to greener fuel like LPG. 02br
00Nearly 80% of the city's buses and trucks and nearly 50% of its taxis and auto-rickshaws would have gone off the roads if the government enforced its directive. 02br
00"It would have thrown Calcutta's transport system into chaos," says Madan Mitra of the Bengal Taxi Association. "The commuter would have suffered." 02br
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00My question is on the last two sentences of the above.02br
00The penultimate sentence means that 80% of the busess and trucks and nearly 50% of taxis and auto-rickshaws are not on Culcutta's streets today if the government didn't enforce this particular directive.02br
01font00Is my understanding correct?02font02br
00The final sentence means if those buses, trucks , taxis and auto-rickshaws are not running on the street's Culcutta today, the commuters are facing problems. Luckily they are running today and commuters are not facing grave problems.02br
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01font00Is my understanding correct?02font02br
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01i00(Don't use those long series of dashes, Rex-- it makes your posts run off the page. MM)02i0-