Delhi / Delhi pollution Farm fires share in Delhi pollution 38 percent highest this season

New Delhi : The share of stubble burning in PM 2.5 pollution in Delhi rose to 38 per cent on Thursday and experts say this is the reason behind the thick layer of fog that engulfed the national capital. The rise in incidents of stubble burning has sparked a political war of words. Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Wednesday said the incidents of stubble burning in Punjab have increased by 19 per cent this year as compared to 2021 and also that the Aam Aadmi Party has turned the national capital into a gas chamber.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hit back, holding the central government accountable for the increase in stubble burning incidents in Punjab and said "if it cannot control air pollution", it should resign.

"The share of stubble burning in Delhi's pollution has increased to about 38, which is very high," said Gufran Baig, founder project director of SAFAR, a weather forecasting agency under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. He said air pollution in Noida. Worse because it is in the path of smoke from stubble burning.

Baig said, "Gurugram and Lodhi Road are not in the way of this smoke, so they have been least affected." Delhi's air quality was grim on Thursday morning due to stubble burning in the fields and the air remained stagnant at night. position reached. The air quality here stood at 419 at 9 am.

Baig said, “The overall air quality in Delhi will remain in the severe category till Friday morning. After that there will be some improvement. A major relief is expected on Saturday after possible improvement in weather conditions - wind speed and speed. But it has a very bad effect.

According to the Air Quality Life Index released by the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago, the life expectancy of the people of Delhi has decreased by 10 years due to poor air quality. There were 3,634 incidents of stubble burning in Punjab on Wednesday, which is the highest number of such incidents this season. There were 1842 such incidents on Tuesday, 2132 on Monday, 1761 on Sunday, 1898 on Saturday and 2067 on Friday.