Pollution

identifying the timelines and implementing agencies for actions delineated,” Union minister of environment, forest and climate change Prakash Javadekar said in a statement informing about the steps taken by the Centre.

Blaming the AAP government in the national capital, BJP MP from Chandni Chowk said Goel said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has been slow in addressing the impending crisis in Delhi over the last five years.

“Kejriwal did not take steps to tackle air pollution and bad water quality. He did not show his concern to around 2 crore people of Delhi. Earlier, water was not coming in Delhi but now water is coming, but it’s contaminated. They are doing politics on this matter. Even the Supreme Court said that the odd-even scheme is not enough to tackle air pollution,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.

“90 per cent pollution happens from local sources such as road construction, smoke coming out from vehicles, dust and industrial pollution. Stubble burning was an excuse. It was being done for the last 30 days. So, the Kejriwal government has not done anything in the last five years,” Goel said.

In reply, AAP leader from Delhi Sanjay Singh targeted Goel for violating the odd-even road rationing scheme, saying, “It is shameful that while we are trying to make student stop using crackers you are trying to influence the public to do otherwise.”

“If pollution can stop by abusing Arvind Kejriwal, please do so. Your mentality is polluted now,” Singh said.

AAP MP Bhagwant Mann attacked the Centre saying that the government was responsible for promoting paddy crops as it offered minimum support price (MSP) for a crop that was the cause of stubble burning. “The government first praises the growth in paddy production and later blames the farmers for stubble burning,” Mann said. “The government should come up with an alternative and provide MSP on other crops as well. If they do so, they will not have any complaint from farmers as they will not grow paddy,” he said.

Senior Congress l eader Ghulam Nabi Azad called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to summon a meeting of MPS, chief ministers, and lieutenant governors on the issue. “If we compete and oppose each other, this issue [of air pollution] will go on,” he says. “We should come together and work against this.”

Apna Dal MP Anupriya Patel said that pollution was the second major cause of diseases in India, adding that 14 cities in the world’s most polluted list are from India.

“Stubble is being blamed and farmers suffer as usage of harvester has been restricted. Farmers can’t harvest their crops… Farmers must be given practical solutions, manufacturing of bio gas awareness via stubble and monetary assistance must be provided,” she said.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the “Delhi-punjab” issue, which is at the centre of the debate about the cause of stubble burning, misses the larger pollution issue. “Our GDP [Gross Domestic Product] would be higher if we dealt with the issue of our air pollution,” he says

“Bringing up children in Delhi is crime against our children… Foreigners have a choice (not to come to Delhi), but unfortunately Indians and Delhi residents don’t have such choice,” he said.

Pollution spikes are common in the first half of November in northern India as farm fires peak in Punjab and Haryana during this time and the resulting smoke settles over the region. Farmers often burn stubble left behind after harvest as a quick and cheap way of clearing their fields for the next round of sowing.

The air quality begins improving by the third week of November. Experts have blamed prolonged monsoon and delayed harvest for the continued stubble burning, which usually ends completely by November 20. Delhi faces only emissions from local sources after that. Low wind speed and continuing stubble burning have led to the unusual spike in the pollution levels around this time of the year. bloodstream after penetrating deep into the lungs.

A dip in wind speed and temperatures worsens air quality by making air denser and trapping pollutants. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 12.5 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning and 89% humidity. the 288-member assembly. The Congress and the NCP, pre-poll allies, won 44 and 54 seats.

The Sena then began talks with the Congress-ncp alliance.