Unfair Burden
India’s worsening air pollution crisis has long been a public health emergency, but the proposal by insurers to hike health premiums in New Delhi due to pollution-related illnesses threatens to turn it into an economic crisis as well.
India’s worsening air pollution crisis has long been a public health emergency, but the proposal by insurers to hike health premiums in New Delhi due to pollution-related illnesses threatens to turn it into an economic crisis as well.
Delhi witnessed yet another day of toxic air on Sunday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) remaining in the ‘very poor’ category for the second consecutive day.
India’s escalating air pollution crisis is one of its gravest public health challenges, yet it remains strikingly absent from mainstream cultural narratives.
The Weather Department has forecast dense fog in Delhi on Wednesday, with minimum and maximum temperatures to hover around 7 and 24 degrees Celsius.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi's average Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday measured 279 which fall under 'poor' category.
The average Air Quality Index (AQI) has been recorded at 421 with no significant improvement in the situation.
During a high-level emergency meeting convened by CM Kejriwal at the Delhi Secretariat, a decision was taken to bring back the odd-even car rationing scheme and extend the suspension of physical classes in schools to November 10.
Difficulty in breathing and irritation in eyes among other health-related issues continued to be a common refrain among the people in and around the national capital.
Speaking on her private member resolution, Yajnik said reports showed that India has the world's worst air pollution, and toxic air killed more than one million people every year
With climate activists and scientists urging world leaders to reduce carbon emissions to prevent irreversible destruction to the planet's climate, India and China remain major contributors to toxic air.
