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It’s an emergency, stop vehicles and lock down city: SC on Delhi air pollution

-TheFederal.com

'It has become a fashion to blame the farmers. Have you seen how crackers are being burnt in Delhi for the last seven days? What was the Delhi Police doing?'

The Supreme Court on Saturday called the toxic air pollution in Delhi-NCR an “emergency” situation and asked the Centre and the Delhi government to take urgent steps to improve the air quality.

The court went on to suggest steps such as stopping vehicles and clamping a lockdown in the Capital, and pointed out that the situation of pollution is so bad that people are wearing masks inside their houses.

A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana said there are other reasons for pollution such as vehicular emissions, firecrackers and dust, and singling out stubble-burning is not the solution.

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