In order to ensure safety of traffic police from toxic gases while serving during the current festive season, ‘Blueair’ a multinational company distributed ten thousand N-95 pollution masks to the traffic police.
These masks were handed over to police personnel at Traffic Police headquarters on Tuesday afternoon. The distribution was done in the presence of Arvind Chabra, Head, Blueair India, Deepndra Pathak, Special Commissioner of Police, Tarffic and around three hundred traffic police personnel.
The distribution of masks has been done under Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) initiative of the company. The campaign consists of spreading awareness programme like ‘See your lungs campaign, save your lungs campaign, planting 10,000 trees to control pollution, plantation march by more than 200 handicapped and school children on World Environment Day, Launching ‘Clean Air Express’
While addressing the gathering, Deepndra Pathak said that, “Delhi suffers from one of the worst spells of air pollution during Diwali. It is a pronounced problem for Delhi police personnel who deal with strained environmental condition while serving their duty. These masks from ‘Blueair’ will help minimize the impact of alarming air pollution on them during the festival.”
“The initiative will also help creating awareness about the deteriorating air quality and how to protect oneself until situation gets better,” added Special Police commissioner.
Arvind Chabra, Head, Blueair India Said “Delhi police is amongst those highly vulnerable groups who, while performing their duties spends long hours breathing highly toxic air on the day of Diwali, therefor becoming more prone to respiratory and other lungs related ailments. These anti-pollution masks will minimize the major impact of toxic air on their health during the duty hours. This initiative will help ensure safety of police personnel from the ill-effects of polluted air, especially from post Diwali air toxicity.”