-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) on Sunday requested the Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority to reconsider the plan to extend the ban on rice mill operations in the National Capital Region (NCR) till Monday. “Due to the current restriction coinciding with peak paddy procurement season, all the paddy is lying in mandies and shellers, at high moisture and is only going to affect adversely...
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Administrative laxity is responsible for failure to check air pollution
-The Telegraph However, it is true that administrative agencies cannot act without a nod from their political masters It is, as always, a question of will. The highest court of the land has demonstrated its will over and over again, coming to the aid of India’s citizens by delivering them from a clutch of threats. Its recent ruling banning noisy, toxic firecrackers can be cited as one example of a deliverance that...
More »Delhi: Little change in pollution despite SC push, 310 arrests for bursting crackers
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Tradition trumped law and concern over air pollution as a large number of Delhiites openly defied the Supreme Court’s guidelines and celebrated Diwali on Wednesday by bursting traditional firecrackers despite a major crackdown. While reports suggested fewer crackers were burst this year than in 2017, Air quality the day after Diwali was almost as bad. The average AQI recorded on Thursday was 390, at “very...
More »Day after Diwali, Delhi's air turns 'hazardous'
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi's Air quality nosedived towards the 'hazardous' category on next morning of Diwali as people violated Supreme Court order and burst firecrackers before and after the 8pm to 10pm time frame in many areas, the authorities said. The overall Air quality Index (AQI) PM 2.5 was recorded 805 at 6am today in the national capital. Several areas in the city recorded AQI over 900, Anand Vihar at...
More »Three schools from Delhi have made it to the nationwide list of top 12 government schools -Janane Venkatraman
-The Hindu One student is making a drone, another a dancing robot. Scenes from two government schools in Delhi The walls of the entryway of the school are covered with bright charts that talk about everything from sustainable development and ‘Swachh Bharat’ to ‘happiness goals’ and exam schedules. The cream-coloured floor gleams and the sun peeps out from the clouds behind the rows of students — dupattas pinned, shirts tucked in, not...
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