New Delhi: When people continue to gasp to breathe in the city, the Delhi government tells the Supreme Court for his readiness to impose locking to curb pollution but suggest total locking in Delhi-NCR to combat the air crisis.
The court recently asked the Central and Delhi government to consider two-day locking to examine the generation of local pollutants considering the extreme decline in air quality.
TimesviewLockdown stacked infinite misery in the poorest city, has been shaken from the months of suffering because Covid, which has reduced employment opportunities and income.
They may only be contemplated as the final effort of the State Government stating that complete locking in Delhi to curb local pollution will be significant only if it is replicated throughout the region of the national capital.
“Given the compact size of Delhi, the Kuncian will have a limited impact on air quality,” said the Delhi government in a written statement.
“This problem needs to be handled at the airshed level involving the NCR area.
Remembering the things above, we are ready to consider this step if the same mandated for all NCR regions by the Indian government or by the Air Quality Management Commission in the National Capital Region.
“Track the level of pollution in your Cityin Affidavit submitted by an official of the Department of Environment, the state government explains the steps of improvement that has been taken to combat air pollution, including prohibiting construction activities in addition to closing educational institutions and directing all government officials to work from home during A week.
Private offices are also recommended to switch to work from home mode to keep vehicles on the streets in an effort to reduce vehicle emissions.
The Delhi government explained that over the past few years, it has been observed that AQI did not reach the ‘heavy’ level between February and September.
“November 2021 saw seven seven days in the first 13 days in a month and corresponded with the increasing number of incidents of burning stumps in Punjab and Haryana on average around 4300 incidents per day.” The court was told about the steps taken to fight air pollution.
The government installed a smoke tower in Connaught Place, while the study of the distribution of pollution sources was carried out to gather information targeted at local pollution resources in Delhi to develop pollution control and mitigation strategies.
The government has identified 13 hotspots and pollution actions being taken on certain mitigation measures such as removal of plastic waste and waste.
The government has also implemented the direction and advisor to the air quality management commission on road dust management, reducing air pollution from scattered sources, protection and traffic enforcement and greening.
The government has developed a comprehensive action plan to eliminate rice residues and burn stumps in Delhi, creating a web portal to handle construction waste and demolition, while road ownership and management institutions.
Actions are also taken against gasoline and older diesel vehicles, respectively, more than 15 years and 10 years.
At the same time, electric vehicles and personal charging stations are being promoted in the city.
Tender has floated for the installation of 100 charging stations in Delhi.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality continues in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday with AQI 349 at 3 pm.
Effective fire count by the Earth Union Science Forecasting Agency, Safar, showed a high number of 3,125, but the share of the propeller in PM2.5 Delhi was only 10% with winds too slow to transport agricultural fire emissions.
The air quality is likely to remain ‘very poor’ for the next three days.