Delhi govt to submit proposal on lockdown to SC today to tackle air pollution

With the onset of layoffs, Delhi’s air quality plunges to dangerous situations every time due to stubble burnings, emigrations from transport, coal- fired shops outside the megacity and other diligence, as well as open scrap burning and dust. 

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi will submit a offer on assessing a lockdown and its modalities to the Supreme Court on Monday in view of the rising air pollution in the Capital. 

It comes days after the top court asked the central and megacity governments to take immediate way to ameliorate the air quality in Delhi and suggested measures similar as stopping vehicles and setting a lockdown in the public capital. 

With the onset of layoffs, Delhi’s air quality plunges to dangerous situations every time due to stubble burnings, emigrations from transport, coal- fired shops outside the megacity and other diligence, as well as open scrap burning and dust. 

This time, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in and around the megacity has worsened to 470-499 on a scale of 500, according to civil pollution control board data. That position of pollution means the air will seriously impact people with being conditions and indeed those who have healthier lungs. 

With the situation continuing to remain grim, the AAP government ordered the check of seminaries till November 20 and asked all government services in Delhi to work from home, starting from Monday. It has also banned construction conditioning till November 17. 

“In the order issued on late Saturday night by the department, we’ve clarified that those seminaries or educational institutions where examinations are formerly being conducted will remain open. All other educational institutions will be closed till November 20,”Gopal Rai, Delhi’s terrain minister, said on Sunday as the department issued a announcement for effective perpetration of the exigency measures. 

The AAP government has also suggested shutting down diesel creator sets and coal kilns in Delhi, adding parking freights, adding the frequence of metro and machine etc to alleviate the pollution. 

Rai also said that the main motive behind all these exigency measures is to reduce vehicular and dust pollution in the megacity. 

Meanwhile, under the containing measures, 400 tankers will be spitting water to settle the dust in the megacity. The government will complete the work of scatteringbio-decomposer results for stubble corruption in acres of fields by November 20.