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|November 22, 2024
SIR, On Monday, Delhi witnessed an average AQI of 488, with some areas reporting over 1,000.
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This further underlines that meteorological conditions will continue to play an outsized role in tipping the air quality in Delhi over to the catastrophic.
A week back, stubble burning or farm fires from Punjab may have been a prominent source, but behind the latest spikes lie household sources and road dust. However, despite such understanding and the creation of empowered bodies such as the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), which is expected to coordinate a response involving not just Delhi but also adjoining States, there is no attempt by the Union and Delhi governments to ease public distress.
Shockingly, both central environment Ministers are away, coordinating election work in Maharashtra and addressing the 29th CoP in Baku, respectively.
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