Delhi Air Emergency: To deal with the increasing air pollution, the Delhi government had called an emergency meeting, in which many big decisions have been taken. Delhi is being partially closed again. The Arvind Kejriwal government has announced some measures to curb the harmful effects of smog that engulfs the city. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced several emergency measures to deal with the pollution crisis, including closure of schools, ban on construction activities, work from home for employees in government offices for a week.
After the emergency meeting, Kejriwal told reporters that his government would also present a ‘lockdown’ plan before the Supreme Court. As air pollution reached an emergency level in Delhi-NCR due to crackers, stubble burning and unfavorable weather conditions, authorities on Friday asked people to stay indoors and allow government and private offices to cut their vehicles usage by up to 30 per cent. was advised to do. These restrictions announced by the government will come into effect from Monday i.e. tomorrow. Here we have told about the important things related to these restrictions in 10 points.
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- All schools will remain closed for a week from November 15.
- As long as schools remain closed, online classes of students will continue.
- Government employees will have to work from home from tomorrow.
- Construction activities have been banned in the national capital.
- Regarding the lockdown in Delhi, Kejriwal said that he is consulting the Center in this regard. Although he clearly said that there is no lockdown in Delhi yet.
- These restrictions were announced on Saturday after the Supreme Court hearing on pollution in Delhi.
- During the hearing, the Supreme Court had asked the Center and the AAP government to impose a lockdown for two days to deal with the situation of air emergency.
- According to SAFAR data, the air quality index remains in the ‘very poor’ category today. The situation is likely to worsen due to low temperature and cold wind blowing.
- Delhi has seen its worst air pollution crisis during winter since 2016. Factors like stubble burning, vehicular pollution have worked to increase air pollution.
- The air quality in Delhi improved from the ‘severe’ category to the ‘very poor’ category on Sunday. The Air Quality Index (AQI) has been recorded at 338.
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Mild improvement in air quality in Delhi
The air quality in Delhi on Sunday improved from the ‘severe’ category to the ‘very poor’ category and the air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 338. The National Capital Region (NCR) regions of Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Noida recorded AQIs of 312, 368, 301 and 357 respectively. According to the air pollution information app ‘Sameer’, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 338 in Delhi at 9:05 am. In Delhi, the AQIs at Lodhi Road, Pusa Road, Chandni Chowk and Delhi Airport were recorded at 295, 313, 352 and 321 respectively. AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, AQI between 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, between 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, between 201 and 300 ‘poor’, between 301 and 400 ‘very poor’ and 401 An AQI between and 500 is considered in the ‘severe’ category.
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