India: New Delhi to shut schools and construction sites due to dangerous air pollution

New Delhi schools will shut for a week and construction sites for four days to try to protect people from air pollution.'s capital has worsened due to factors such as transport emissions, crop stubble burning and coal-fired power plants.

The city's score on the air quality index has risen to 470-499 on a scale of 500, the federal pollution control board said on Saturday. It indicates that healthy people will be affected by the pollution, while those with existing diseases will be seriously impacted.The chief minister of New Delhil, Arvind Kejriwal, said talks on the possibility of a complete lockdown were also under way but that a decision would only come after consulting central government."For a week from Monday onwards, schools will be physically closed but will continue virtually so that children don't have to breathe polluted air...

All government offices would shift to home working and private offices advised to follow suit to limit vehicles on the road, he added.

Two days a week minimum required to get on top of this situation! We need international committee insisting on improvement and enforcement!

The world is getting fucking up now ok from Gary Scott Arstall from Salford

India get your shit together,fighting climate change starts at home. Air you can’t breathe and rivers of plastic.

Just like China’s smog !

Wee Greta will fly over and sort it out.

Lockdowns don't work.

We should be back in lockdown here in the UK. Time to pull out socks up and fight this thing together

India in the fast lane to become a vast toxic wasteland .

Ha ha comical

they ought to be sanctioned for polluting the earth ClimateAction ClimateCrisis ClimateJustice

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