there is growing evidence to believe that the incidence of acid rain is increasing in India. Many experts link the phenomenon with increasing industrialisation in the country.

On August 23, Union minister of state for environment and forest, Namo Narain Meena, informed the Rajya Sabha that the India Meteorological Department (imd) has found increasing acidity in rain samples from Pune and Nagpur. The samples were acidic with pH values less than 5