NEW DELHI, Nov 13 ― New Delhi’s chief minister today ordered schools to close for a week as India’s capital reeled under dangerously high levels of air pollution.
Today, pollution levels in the megacity were 437 on a scale of 500 on the Air Quality Index, data from the Central Pollution Control Board showed. Government offices were asked to operate from home and private businesses advised to stick to work-from-home options as much as possible. The city is ranked one of the world’s most polluted, with a hazardous melange of factory emissions, car exhaust fumes and smoke from agricultural fires settling in the skies over its 20 million people each winter.
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