REPEATED court interventions and an apparent unwillingness of relevant public agencies to execute whatever plans that the government has made to contain air pollution over the years have fallen flat. A report of the Swiss air technology company IQAir, which monitors the quality of air with 40,000 monitoring stations across 8,954 locations in 138 countries, territories and regions, has said that Dhaka was the world鈥檚 third most polluted metropolitan area in 2024, after the Indian capital of New Delhi, which has come first, and Chad鈥檚 N鈥橠jamena, which has come second. The 2024 World Air Quality Report ranks Dhaka with an annual average PM2.5 reading of 78.0. The reading is more than 15 times higher than the WHO