-The Indian Express The odd-even pilot reduced hourly particulate air pollution concentrations by 10-13 per cent. But for the longer run, a congestion-pricing programme may be better Delhi’s ambitious odd-even pilot experiment to reduce the number of cars on the road, and pollution in the air, has come to an end — at least for now. But the question remains: Was it successful? Answering this question is challenging. Air pollution data is...
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Why PhDs want to be peons -Roshan Kishore, Dipti Jain and Ishan Anand
-Livemint.com Quality employment eludes majority of India’s university educated Last year, 2.3 million people, including postgraduates and PhDs, applied for 368 peon posts advertised in Uttar Pradesh. Outrage followed. Why were highly educated people applying for a job which required only primary school education and knowing how to ride a bicycle, people asked. To answer, one needs to find out the jobs people who have been through a university end up in. According...
More »Trying and testing the car formula -Rukmini S & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu While the Delhi government’s spirit of experimentation is to be lauded, the right lessons need to be learnt from the odd-even trial. It is now amply clear that no credible data supports the Delhi government’s claim that the odd-even trial has reduced pollution or improved air quality. In fact, the quality of air in the first week of January was worse compared to previous weeks. Data obtained from the National...
More »Pollution falls, for now, largely due to weather in Delhi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Whether due to odd-even rule or not, air pollution levels in the city have begun to fall. Data released by System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) of the ministry of earth sciences showed PM2.5 concentration on January 9 to be at the lowest level since December 25. It was also lower than the level recorded on the same day in 2015. Please click...
More »Air quality data blows away Delhi govt’s claim -Damini Nath & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu Govt’s claim that pollution in the city has dropped over the past week is at odds with data of the daily average levels as well as peak values of PM. The Delhi government's claim that pollution in the Capital has reduced over the past week is at odds with data of the daily average levels as well as peak values of particulate matter (PM). As per a report submitted by the...
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