Waste-burning for heat fuels Capital's air crisis

Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta recently announced an initiative to distribute heaters to residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) in the city for night guards, so they don’t burn waste or other materials during the winter.

- Bharati Chaturvedi

Data on this issue has been available since at least 2016, and citizens could have addressed it earlier. The fight against air pollution has two parts: policy that enables citizens while taking systemic steps, and the smaller but important actions that citizens can take themselves. Any RWA, market association, construction site, or establishment that can afford security guards can also afford heaters. RWAs across the city should provide heaters a