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Earlier, the government announced staggered office timings for its offices and the MCD.
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The comments come a day after Delhi reported the worst AQI in the country, with the air quality turning 'severe' for the first time this season
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Delhiites continued to breathe toxic air on Tuesday as the air quality edged closer to the severe zone in some areas. The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 384 at 9 am, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
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Delhi Police have been instructed to hold meetings with Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs), market associations, and religious committees to encourage public cooperation
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The government has listed measures including drone monitoring, an anti-dust campaign, formation of new task forces, road-sweeping machines and deployment of 200 mobile anti-smog guns as part of the plan.
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Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) fluctuated between ’moderate’ and ’poor’ during May 24 to June 12, Rai said and added that dust particles play an important role in summer pollution
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Addressing a press conference here, Rai, who is also the AAP's Delhi state convenor, said the party has so far organised a door-to-door campaign, multiple ''sankalp sabha'' events and roadshows featuring jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal
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The party workers will read the preamble of the Constitution and an oath to save the founding document of the country, Rai said.
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Gopal Rai said reports were received by the department that operations of the smog tower have been stopped again by the workers due to non-payment of salaries for the last two months and that, the move amounts to a direct "contempt of court".
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The national capital has recorded 10 severe air quality days this November so far.
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Recent data shows that vehicular emissions account for about 25-30 per cent of the capital's air pollution. Though stubble burning has reduced, biomass burning at different locations in Delhi-NCR is responsible for 21 per cent of Delhi air pollution, Rai told reporters here.
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The STF will coordinate with all the departments involved in the enforcement of pollution control measures and submit a report to the government daily, Rai told reporters.
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Court noted that while vehicular pollution contributes to 17 percent of Delhi's air pollution woes, the odd-even scheme would reduce only 13 percent of the 17 percent, thereby making its impact negligible.
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Rai said he held a meeting with scientists from IIT Kanpur who told him that cloud seeding could only be attempted if there were clouds or moisture in the atmosphere.
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Air quality in Delhi-NCR has deteriorated over the past week due to a gradual drop in temperatures, calm winds that trap pollution, and an increase in post-harvest paddy straw burning across Punjab and Haryana.
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Starting from November 1, only electric, CNG, and BS VI-compliant diesel buses will be allowed to operate between Delhi and the cities and towns in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan that come within the National Capital Region, or NCR, according to directions issued by the Centre’s Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM).
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Only around 2,500 stubble burning incidents have been recorded so far, compared to 5,000 such cases during the same period last year, he told reporters here.
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Delhi transport minister Gopal Rai said that directions were issued to increase the frequency of metro and buses in Delhi as mandated under the Stage II of the Supreme Court-mandated Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)
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Rai, in a letter to Bhupender Yadav, his counterpart at the Centre, said the Delhi government has taken numerous steps to curb air pollution during the winter season.
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The Delhi Fire Services said the fire broke out at Tomato Mandi in Azadpur and that there were no casualties.
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Gopal Rai told PTI in an interview that a team is being set up to identify plant species that have a high mortality rate after transplantation and to ascertain the impact of soil type and other factors on the translocated trees in a bid to improve their survival rate.
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Addressing a press conference, Rai also said the AAP government in Punjab will scale up the use of bio-decomposer, a microbial solution which can turn paddy straw into manure in around three weeks, in the agrarian state.
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The party released ’Kejriwal’s 10 guarantees’ for the December 4 MCD polls earlier this month with the promise to clear the three landfill sites and address the problem of garbage mismanagement in the capital.
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The party released 'Kejriwal's 10 guarantees' for the December 4 MCD polls earlier this month with the promise to clear the three landfill sites and address the problem of garbage mismanagement in the capital.
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A decision on reopening primary schools and revocation of order asking 50 per cent of the government staff to work from home is likely to be taken at the meeting.
