New Delhi unveiled on Monday a series of plans for the Indian capital’s annual poison smog, as the government warned that severe pollutants could worsen with the coronavirus outbreak.
The city’s air, which is home to another 20 million people, turns into a destructive cocktail of dust and smoke each winter, caused by vehicle fumes, commercial emissions and smoke from agricultural fires.
Fog sees the city ranked among the world’s top polluted.
At a virtual press convention on Monday, Delhi’s leading minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said the government would launch a series of projects: establishing a “war room” to deal with conflict points when standing up and experimenting with new technologies to solve old problems. .
For starters, the government will check a procedure called biodecomponent, which would turn stubble into fertilizer, Kejriwal said.
The fermented liquid, made with cane sugar and flour, is intended to slowly break the straw.
Smoke from burnt stubble, especially from neighboring states, is guilty of almost a portion of the air pollutants in New Delhi, even if it is officially banned.
Air quality will be monitored in a new war room and checks will be carried out at the sites.
Burning straw after rice harvesting is the cause of much of the pollutants surrounding New Delhi Photo: AFP / NARINDER NANU
The authorities will also provide a telephone application for others to report on polluters.
Delhi measurements of PM2. 5, small waste entering the bloodstream and important organs, succeed in nearly 40 times the point of protection advised by the World Health Organization of the 25.
Pollution levels plummeted before this year when the months-long national blockade opposed to coronavirus disrupted much of commercial production.
But experts say respite may not particularly diminish the seasonal “air apocalypse. “
“The blockade has helped in the sense that reference degrees are falling,” Anand Krishnan, a network professor at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, told AFP.
“But the reasons for the October and November pollutant peaks (climate agricultural fires) have changed. “
People with pre-existing lung or central diseases bothered by contaminants may receive a “double blow” if they also have Covid-19, Professor Dorairaj Prabhakaran of the Indian Public Health Foundation told the AFP.
Delhi has been greatly affected by the epidemic, with nearly 300,000 infections out of a national total of 6. 6 million.