According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitoring agency, SAFAR, the share of stubble-burning in Delhi's PM2.5 pollution was 19 per cent on Friday.
Ordinance issued Wednesday disbands Supreme Court-appointed EPCA that was set up in 1998 and in its time, enforced several key measures to tackle the air pollution challenge.
Punjab govt has taken a number of steps to curb stubble burning, but has still registered 16,058 incidents between 21 September and 26 October this year.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor, SAFAR, said wind direction & wind speed is favourable for transport of pollutants from farm fires in Haryana, Punjab.
New ‘red light on, gaadi off’ campaign will get motorists to switch off engines at stop lights. It is among a host of Delhi govt measures to combat pollution.
Agencies advise capturing space waste with harpoons, nets or robotic arms and bring it it back to Earth in one piece, a process that can be replicated to gather plastic in the ocean.
The Environment Minister's statement came as he flagged off 50 teams to inspect pollution hot spots in Delhi-NCR Thursday and urged the Punjab govt to curb stubble burning.
The essential services include health care facilities, elevators, railway, metro, airports & interstate bus terminals and the data centre run by the National Informatics Centre.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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