After Diwali, NCR cities including Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad and Sonipat remain very dangerous. According to the Air Quality Index, both PM 2.5 and PM 10 in Delhi have crossed 500, which is very dangerous for health.
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In view of the increasing pollution, the EPCA has said that in view of the experience of Diwali, firecrackers will be banned throughout the winter.
Ban on bursting of firecrackers on Chhath, EPCA has taken this decision in view of the situation created due to firecrackers bursting on Diwali.
Apart from Delhi, the capital of the country, the construction of this adjoining NCR, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Faridabad and Greater Noida will stop construction work till Sonipat till 5 November.
Hot mix plant, stone crusher will also be closed by morning
Coal and other fuels industries in Faridabad, Gurugram, Ghaziad, Noida, Greater Noida, Sonipat, Panipat, Bahadurgarh and Bhiwadi will also be completely closed by 5 November.
CM Kejriwal said- ‘I want to ask the Central, Punjab and Haryana Government when the burning of stubble will be stopped there.’
During Aud Even a change has been made in the timings of the offices under the Delhi Government. An order has also been issued in this regard.
In Kalyanpuri, Delhi, elderly women and school children appeared to be wearing masks to avoid pollution.
Environment Pollution Control Authority Chairman Dr.BhureLal has appealed to farmers not to burn stubble. On Friday, he said that instead of burning the straw, farmers should use it to make manure.
The situation is worsening due to continuous pollution in Ghaziabad, in which the district administration may decide to close schools on the lines of Delhi.
Due to the rising smoke of straw in Delhi, the pollution level has increased so much, so the Delhi government has decided that all the schools in Delhi will remain closed till 5 November.
The three municipal corporations (North Delhi Municipal Corporation, East Delhi Municipal Corporation and South Delhi Municipal Corporation) have decided to close the schools by 4 November.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal distributed masks to school children on Friday.
Construction works will be closed in Delhi-NCR till 5 November.
EPCA has written a letter to the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and asked them to take necessary steps.
Arvind Kejriwal, the head of the Delhi government, has cited the reason behind increasing pollution in Delhi as burning of stubble in Punjab and Haryana.
Seeing that the air in Delhi-NCR does not improve, the Environmental Pollution Control and Protection Authority (EPCA) has declared a Health Emergency in Delhi-NCR.
All the restrictions imposed in the NCR cities till November 2 have been extended till November 5 by consulting the Meteorological Department.
Ghaziabad district adjacent to Delhi was the first district in the country at 8 am on Friday, but things improved a little later.
In Noida too, the situation is more or less the same and here also the air quality index is beyond 350.
Construction work on hold till the morning of November 5
At the same time, the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority took a big decision in view of the continuously poisonous air in Delhi-NCR and announced a ban on all kinds of construction works till November 5. is. According to EPCA, with the amount of pollution in the air reaching dangerous places, it is like a public health emergency and its impact is more on children. With this, the EPCA has banned bursting of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR during the entire winter season.
According to EPCA President BhureLal, he has written to the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, UP and Haryana in this regard. In it, he said that air quality in Delhi-NCR has deteriorated since Thursday and it has become very serious at the moment. According to BhureLal, we are treating pollution as a public health emergency, because air pollution has serious effects, especially on children.
At the same time, all the schools of the three municipal corporations (North Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Municipal Corporation) will remain closed till Monday.
Delhi tops the polluted cities, Lahore city of Pakistan ranks second
Asia has 8 cities in the list of the world’s 10 most polluted cities. Among them, Delhi, the capital of India, occupies the first place and Lahore city of Pakistan is at the second place.
This is the list
- Delhi
- Lahore
- Kolkata
- Poznaैन (Poland)
- Krakow (Poland)
- Hangzhou (China)
- Kathmandu (Nepal)
- Dhaka (Bangladesh)
- Busan (South Korea)
- Chongqing (China)