'Air purifiers for 10K classrooms'

DELHI CHOKES

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood Friday announced that air purifiers will be installed in 10,000 classrooms to ensure clean air for students.

Addressing a press conference, Sood said that the government is committed towards tackling the pollution problem through long-term administrative reforms and policy measures.

“We are not those who flaunt IIT degrees and do campaigns like Odd-Even or ‘Red Light On, Gaadi Off’ campaign. We are tackling the issue of pollution through long-term administrative measures rather than treating it as a PR exercise,” he said, taking a dig at the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. The Odd-Even scheme, first introduced by the AAP government under the then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, was implemented twice in 2016, from January 1 to 15 and again from April 15 to 30.

The scheme aimed to curb vehicular pollution by restricting the movement of private vehicles based on the last digit of their registration numbers.