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Delhi pollution: L-G Jung announces crackdown on old vehicles; entry of trucks
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 IST
Delhi pollution: L-G Jung announces crackdown on old vehicles; entry of trucks

All 15-year-old diesel vehicles will be de-enlisted and an impermanent restriction on construction activities was reached out till November 14 as the Delhi government attempted to contain the city's most noticeably awful contamination for almost 20 years.

These were a piece of steps that lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung included Monday to the rundown of against contamination measures the main clergyman reported this weekend.

Jung met a crisis meeting with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his agent, Manish Sisodia, administrators, contamination control board authorities, and ecological specialists on a day the city's air quality enhanced imperceptibly with the twist getting speed.

The wind scattered poisons and overwhelmed the thick front of dangerous cloudiness that covered the city for about a week post-Diwali. Perceivability likewise enhanced and city luxuriated in daylight following a few days.

In any case, as per contamination observing organization SAFAR, the 24-hour normal level of PM 2.5 — modest particulate matter that achieves profound into the lungs — stayed in the "serious" classification at 622 micrograms for each cubic meter on Monday.

That is almost 30 times a mean rule of 25 micrograms for each cubic meter by and large over a 24-hour duration set by the World Health Organization (WHO), which says open air contamination killed 3.7 million individuals comprehensively in 2012.

The 24-hour-normal air quality list (AQI) recorded by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) was 423 as against Sunday's 497, which was the season's most noticeably awful.

The brown haze constrained the legislature to take critical measures, however naturalists said these were short of what was expected.

 
 

 
 

 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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