The Government has rejected a study on pollution published in the Geophysical Research Letters Journal of the American Geophysical Union. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mr Prakash Javadekar, said, “we reject the claims made in the so-called research article that Indians lose six years of their lives because of pollution. The Ministry of Earth Sciences does not agree with the study and has completely rejected the study. The Ministry of Earth Sciences has made it clear that it does not subscribe to any of the conclusions emerging out of the reported study. The study is based on regional atmospheric chemistry model and statistical algorithm to construct estimates and this is based on studies in Europe and America, which have been extrapolated on India. This study has not been done on sampling, it has not been done on ground studying and it is not based on long-term observations.”