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                          Read the following passage carefully 1 According to a new study, a vast blanket of pollution stretehing across South Asia is cutting down sunlight by 10 per evnt over India, damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk. 2 It is said, "Acids in the haze may, by falling as acid rain, have the potential to damage crops and trees. Ash falling on leaves can aggravate the impact of reduced sunlight on the Earth's surface. The pollution that is forming the haze could be leading to several hundreds of thousands of premature deaths as a result of higher. levels of respiratory diseases," 3 The haze has cut down sunlight over India by 10 per cent (so far) a huge amount 1 As a repercussion, the North-Weat of India is drying up," Prof. V. Ramanathan said when asked specifically about the impact of the haze over India. He said, "We are still in an early stage of understanding of the impact of the haze."  Prof. V. Ramanathan was asked whether the current droughtis in most parts of India after over a decade of good monsoons was owing to the haze. He naid, "It was too early to reach a conclusion. If the droughts periint for about four to five years, then we would start suspecting that it may be because of the haze." India, China and Indonesia are the worst affected owing to their population density.
                        
                        
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