Air pollution
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India - 'Hazardous' air pollution season starts for New Dehli residents
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High
Event date (UTC)
2024-10-23 08:15:49
Last update (UTC)
2024-11-24 17:29:58
Acrid clouds engulfed India's capital as air pollution fuelled by fireworks and farm stubble burning was ranked "hazardous" by monitors for the first time this winter.
Commuters walking to work coughed through poisonous smog that kills thousands each year, according to health experts, although few in the sprawling city wear masks.
New Delhi is blanketed in acrid smog each year, primarily blamed on stubble burning by farmers seeking to clear their fields for ploughing in the neighbouring regions.
Air pollution is expected to worsen, especially during the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, which falls on 1 November this year.
Smoky fireworks spewing hazardous pollution are part of celebrations.
Levels of fine particulate matter, cancer-causing microparticles that enter the bloodstream through the lungs, surged to more than 68 times the World Health Organization recommended maximum.
New Delhi this month ordered a "complete ban" on all firecrackers - both their manufacture and sale - in view of the "public interest to curb high air pollution".
Previous restrictions were routinely ignored however as police are often reluctant to act against violators, given the strong religious sentiments attached to the crackers by Hindu devotees.
Authorities have also banned stubble burning, and police in Haryana state have this week arrested several farmers for setting fires before tilling.
Government efforts have so far failed to solve the country's air quality problem, and a study in the Lancet medical journal attributed 1.67 million premature deaths in 2019 to air pollution in the world's most populous country.
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