SC to hear pollution cases related to Delhi, other cities today
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The Supreme Court will expand its focus on air pollution to other cities in India during a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
India’s escalating air pollution crisis is one of its gravest public health challenges, yet it remains strikingly absent from mainstream cultural narratives.
Within a fortnight, the degree of air pollution in the industrial cities of Durgapur and Asansol have further crossed the pollution levels of the country's highest polluted cities in recent times.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), published by the WHO, indoor air pollution is the second largest killer in India after blood pressure, claiming two lives every minute.
Besides, air pollution ranks among the leading risk factors contributing to the disease burden in most South East Asian countries and India is no exception.
Additional enforcement teams may be deployed at all the entry points to peripheral ways to ensure the implementation of the aforesaid directions, added Rai.
The advisory came in the wake of overall air quality in Delhi, which continued to be in ‘severe category’, is likely to improve in various places in the national capital due to the light rain that occurred on Saturday morning.
If stubble burning is detected anywhere in the state, the concerned police station in charge will be held responsible.
Delhi Congress President Arvind Singh Lovely, along with party leaders, Mangat Ram Singhal and Haroon Yusuf, took part in silent protest.
Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday said the government is considering to attempt artificial rain in the city on November 20-21.
