Delhi’s air quality fell to its worst level since December 2019 on Thursday (File)
New Delhi:
Senior environmental and health officials and governments in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab are expected to appear before a parliamentary panel on Friday to find a ‘permanent solution’ to air pollution in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas.
In accordance with an opinion published Thursday by the Lok Sabha secretariat, representatives of the ministries of Housing and Urban Affairs, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Health and Family Welfare will appear before the Parliamentary Committee. permanent urban development, which is chaired. by BJP MP Jagdambika Pal.
In addition, officials from the Central Pollution Control Board and the NCT state governments of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab will also appear before the panel on the current air pollution situation in the nation’s capital and its adjacent areas.
The agenda for the meeting states that the parliamentary panel will deliberate on “the measures taken for the prevention of air pollution in Delhi and NCR with particular emphasis on finding a permanent solution to the pollution of the air. ‘air in Delhi and NCR. “
Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality fell to its worst level since December 2019 on Thursday, with farm fires accounting for 42% of its pollution, the highest this season so far, data from government agencies shows. central.
Experts said adverse weather conditions – calm winds and low temperatures – and smoke from farm fires in neighboring states led to a dense layer of haze on Wednesday evening as the air quality index entered. the “ severe ” category.
The haze cleared Thursday with higher wind speed contributing to the dispersal of pollutants. However, the 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 450, the highest since December 30 of last year, when it was 446.
All 36 Delhi monitoring stations recorded the air quality in the “severe” category. Neighboring cities of Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurgaon and Noida also recorded “severe” air pollution.
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