Delhi pollution: 'Red Light On Vehicle Off' campaign begins from Oct 18
India | October 12, 2021 13:11 ISTThe chief minister said that it is high time that Delhiites took responsibility to bring pollution down.
The chief minister said that it is high time that Delhiites took responsibility to bring pollution down.
All project proponents are required to mandatorily register on the web portal.
Gopal Rai made the suggestions during an online meeting of NCR states convened by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav.
New Delhi will witness a partially cloudy sky on Tuesday, however, there is no possibility of rain yet.
A thick layer of toxic foam was found floating on the surface of river Yamuna near Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area. River Yamuna is again overflowing with thick foam of toxic due to high level of pollution in Delhi. The toxic chemical is cause due to dumping of waste materials into water body, industrial wastes.
The Delhi government in its annual budget for 2021-22 presented on Tuesday allocated an amount of Rs 9,394 crore to improve the city's pollution situation which constantly has been a challenging task for the last several years.
Delhi's air quality is in 'very poor' category, as per System of Air Quality & Weather Forecasting & Research.
The IMD also predicted similar conditions over other parts of the country, including "Dense to very dense (fog) at isolated places over Punjab and Haryana.
Visibility was reported at 25 meters due to dense fog in Bareilly, Lucknow, and Gorakhpur on Tuesday. Visibility of 50 meters was reported at Ganganagar, Patiala, Baharaich, and Purnea, IMD said.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) in a tweet stated, "Visibility (in meter) recorded 0530 hours IST of January 31: Delhi (Palam and Safdarjung)-1000m."
Following the ongoing COVID-19 conditions, health experts have urged people to take extra precautions as respiratory diseases tend to worsen with a dip in temperature and a rise in pollution levels.
National capital's air quality continues to degrade as it slips from 'very poor category' to 'severe category.' According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), city's air quality index stood at 404 in the morning of December 23.
Delhi's air quality, which was “very poor” on Sunday, improved significantly to the “moderate” category on Monday morning.
An AQI between 0-50 is marked good, 51-100 is satisfactory, 101-200 is moderate, 201- 300 is poor, 301-400 is very poor and 401-500 is considered severe.
The minimum temperature in Delhi was 11 degrees Celsius on Saturday and the maximum is expected to settle around 28 degrees Celsius, the weather department said. However, the minimum temperature is likely to dip again with the wind direction changing to northwesterly by Monday, according to IMD officials.
The minimum temperature this season has remained 2-3 degrees Celsius below normal in the absence of a cloud cover on most days, according to IMD officials.
The national capital witnessed more polluted November this year than in 2019, largely due to lesser precipitation and large-scale stubble burning.
Winds are predicted to slow down further. Therefore, Delhi's air quality is likely to deteriorate further and remain in the “poor” to “very poor” category over the next two days.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reserve 1,000 ICU beds in Centre-run hospital for Covid patients.
Delhi's AQI was 302 on Monday, 274 on Sunday, 251 on Saturday, 296 on Friday, 283 on Thursday and 211 on Wednesday.
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