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#PollutionWatch: Total Ban on Sale, Use of All Kinds of #Firecrackers in NCR from November 9-30: NGT

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(📸: Anindya Chattopadhyay/BCCL Delhi)
#NGT has ordered imposition of a total ban on sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR or any other city or town across the country where the average ambient air quality from November 9-10 to the midnight of Nov 30-Dec 1 falls under the 'poor' and above category.
A bench of #NGT Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel passed the order on a batch of petition seeking remedial action against the use and sale of firecrackers amid the double whammy of pollution crisis and rising #coronavirus infections.
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#PollutionWatch: Delhi Chief Minister @ArvindKejriwal Imposes Ban on #Firecrackers in Delhi till November 30

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(📸: IANS)
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Delhi Chief Minister @ArvindKejriwal on Thursday held a review meeting on the coronavirus situation and the preparedness of Delhi to deal with the #COVID19 cases and also decided to ban #firecrackers, as both #pollution and COVID-19 are adversely impacting city residents.
"The Delhi government has decided to put a complete ban on the sale, purchase, and use of firecrackers in Delhi from November 7 to November 30."

#PollutionWatch #Pollution #AirQualityIndex #AQI #AirPollution
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The #DelhiAirEmergency has brought #AirQualityIndex and #DelhiPollution infamy.

This thread enumerates problems, approaches and solutions for Delhi based on experiences with state, market and society.

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The Keeling curve has steadily crossed 450 and unprecedented urbanization increasingly looks like the future of humanity will live in cities. The sustainability of natural resources of water, air, land and energy will be critical to our survival.
In India, the nation has power, states have money and cities/villages have the problems. This mismatch must be corrected by effective interventions in honest politics, effective governments, market, academia and civil society. Problems must be met with resources and intent.
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