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Delhi's pollution crisis: Demand for emergency meeting of Environment Ministers

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AuthorSNS
Published date08 November 2021
Publication titleStatesman, The (India)
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the people of Delhi were suffocating due to polluted air owing to the negligence of the Centre and the neighbouring states.

As many as 21,623 stubble burning incidents were recorded through NASA imagery in Punjab, Haryana and UP between 1 November and 6 November 6.

A total of 5,728 stubble burning incidents took place in Punjab, Haryana and UP on 5 November.

Rai said the addition of firecracker pollution to this mix made the situation extremely lethal. He pointed out that the Kejriwal government's constant appeals for a Joint Action Plan to get rid of stubble burning and air pollution have fallen on deaf ears.

He added, "The Kejriwal government used the bio-decomposer solution and the result was that there was no stubble burning incident in Delhi. We asked other states to do the same but they did not care."

The minister said Delhi could not get rid of pollution unless immediate, as well as long-term steps, were taken in the neighbouring states to curb air pollution.

The minister added, "The available data clearly shows that pollution in Delhi gets...

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