<![CDATA[Background: World Health Organization, around 4.2 million individuals kick the bucket rashly from theimpacts of contaminated, open air each and every year, while a further 3.8 million pass on because of messyindoor air.4,5 Air contamination is a tremendous issue and not only for individuals living in brown hazegagged urban areas: through such things as an unnatural weather change and harm to the ozone layer, itcan possibly influence every one of us. So what precisely aims this major natural issue ? Air contaminationcounteraction is a financial weight to an individual and to a country on a worldwide scale.1Air contaminationis a danger to human and condition; along these lines, it is critical to comprehend key sources, causes,wellbeing impacts related with air contamination. This monograph gives a review about air contaminationand proposes the appropriate preventive measures to lessen air contamination. 2Methods: A non-experimental descriptive design with quantitative approach, was adopted to assess theknowledge on air pollution and its prevention and Air Quality index among people residing in urban areasof Pune city. It includes 250 samples from selected areas .Non probability convenience sampling techniquewas adopted in this study.Result: Based on the objectives of the study which is to assess the knowledge of the people and theassociation between the demographic variables, the following result has been identified.The knowledge level was identified as; 20.8% of the people have a poor knowledge level on air pollution, itsprevention and air quality index; 76% of the people have an average knowledge regarding air pollution, itsprevention and air quality index and only 3.2% of the people have good knowledge regarding air pollution,its prevention and air quality index. By using the paired t test formula, the t value is 0.05. The demographicvariable of education alone has an association with 0.001 as the closest value to the average. The otherdemographic variables of gender, age and employment do not have an association with the t value, as theyare more than the average with findings of 0.119, 0.643 and 0.481 respectively.]]>
