After a few days of respite from smog and pollution in Delhi/NCR the AQI plummeted once again, touching close to 300 in some areas, which is in the very poor category.
While a majority of ministers chose to skip the Parliament session, Congress leader Manish Tewari and Biju Janta Dal’s (BJD) Pinaki Misra initiated a discussion on pollution in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
While Jahangirpuri was the most polluted area in Delhi with an AQI of 311, Ghaziabad (256), Greater Noida (218) and Noida (227) recorded poor air quality levels.
On Monday, the Supreme Court directed anti-pollution authority, EPCA, to strengthen surveillance and enforcement to check local sources of pollution and crop burning in view of the predicted dip in air quality.