The smoke in the air due to industrialization and scenarios like farm fires when merged with fog, especially in winter create smog that comes with a bundle of severe conditions in humans, and animals and has the capability to kill plants. Smog has a direct effect on the respiratory system
The Aam Aadmi Party supremo rebuked Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav for blaming Punjab AAP for the rising level of air pollution in the national capital. Kejriwal said that it is being deliberately portrayed that only Punjab and AAP are the causes of air pollution.
BJP leader Bhupendra Yadav attacked AAP over the rising rate of farm fires in Punjab. He also blamed the AAP-run Punjab government for rising air pollution in Delhi.
CAQM stated that as per the satellite remote sensing data, up to October 24, 2022, only about 39 per cent of sown area in Punjab had been harvested and thus the rising number of fire events is a matter of concern. As per the Standard Protocol developed by ISRO for CAQM, for the period Septem
New Delhi [India] October 28(ANI/ PR Newswire): The onset of winters brings farm fires with it, massively impacting the nation's capital and bringing its air quality index down and increasing the pollution up to 20 times higher than the safe threshold levels defined by the World Health Organ