Delhi’s Possible Green Era

DELHI’S NEW PLANTATION MUST BE INDIGENOUS AND WHAT’S LEFT SHOULD BE CONSERVED

health outcomes, particularly for children, with continuous medical bills.

Instead, Delhi needs better public transportation and walking space on roads, so we end our dependence on private transport, enjoying clean air.

We need restrictions on diesel-run private vehicles. Trash must reduce too, and kabaris-India’s biggest environmentalists-be enabled to recycle and compost.

Imagine no poisons in ground water, leached from landfills, or in the air, from waste-toenergy plants. Unlike the elite in Luytens Delhi, most residents rarely experience Delhi’s biodiversity in their midst.

Delhi’s new plantation must comprise not pretty exotics, but be indigenous, and what’s left should be conserved.

Much of what’s left is not ‘protected’-like Najafgarh Nala. It must all be safeguarded, so every child enjoys nature locally, a benefit being internationally acknowledged as key to a basic good life and health.

Delhi is environmentally crippled. This is everyone’s loss, but the middle class and poor are hit the most, because of the expense on environmental health challenges. Protecting the city’s environment will be a huge saving the AAP can offer us all.