Delhi, India’s capital, has experienced significant air pollution, choking residents, and heavy smog engulfing the city.
Monitors recorded pollution levels of 1, 500 at 15: 00 IST ( 10: 30 BST ), according to tech company IQAir- 15 times the level the Word Health Organization ( WHO ) considers satisfactory for breathing.
Authorities in the area have already ordered schools to close and halt construction work in the wake of the dangerous air’s impact on flight services.
It comes just days after Lahore, in neighbouring Pakistan, even recorded pollution levels above 1, 000.
Additionally, experts warn that Delhi’s current position may get worse in the coming weeks, suggesting that Delhi may need to take more drastic measures to address its waste issue.
Air with an AQI of above 300 is deemed to become unhealthy by the WHO.
After the city passed 450 in accordance with its measurements on Monday morning, Delhi’s pollution control authority ( PLC ) issued a” severe plus” rating for the air.
The town has also prohibited the access of non-essential tractors into Delhi and asked all headquarters to require 50 % of their staff to work from home, in addition to closing schools and banning building work.
The government imposed a ban on using diesel generators for non-emergency providers last month as well as for activities that involve the use of fuel and wood.
Every month, Delhi, India’s northeastern states and parts of Pakistan struggle hazardous weather during the spring months of October to January according to plummeting temperatures, dust, dust, small wind speed, automotive emissions and crop stubble burning.
And during these times of the year, the federal implements pollution control procedures.
Yet, Delhi’s pollution problem has n’t gone away.
On Monday, Delhi’s Chief Minister Atishi said that all of north India was experiencing a “medical crisis” according to grass burning continuing unregulated across the country, especially in the neighbouring state of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Despite the problem getting worse over the past five years, she claimed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) has n’t taken any steps to stop it.
The BJP, in turn, has blamed Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) for not being able to put a check to pollution in the city.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s residents continue to gasp for air.
” Woke up with a itchy, painful throat.. even two air purifiers are not making the AQI breathable indoors. Children are breathing in gas chamber”, one user wrote on X ( formerly Twitter ).
A “peaceful mass protest on the streets” was requested by another user. ” The air we breathe is lethally toxic”, he wrote.
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