New Delhi | Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday while speaking on the recent increasing air pollution said that the air quality levels in Delhi and other parts of northern India will improve soon.
“The dust storm also led to high levels of Particulate Matter (PM) 10. We have issued an alert for the same and the environment ministry convened a meeting of a task force. We also gave an advisory to the state governments affected by the crisis. By the weekend, the situation should be normal in the next 1-2 days.” Harsh Vardhan said while blaming the dust storms the reason behind the deteriorating air quality.
There was a dust storm from Rajasthan which resulted in deterioration of air quality&high levels of PM 10.We issued an alert,convened a meeting of task force&gave advisory to state gvt.Situation should be normal in 1-2 days:Environment Min Dr Harsh Vardhan on air quality in Delhi pic.twitter.com/RkX6EVloaL
— ANI (@ANI) June 15, 2018
As per AQICN reports on Friday morning, the PM10 (particles with the diameter less than 10mm) level was over 700 in most of the Delhi-NCR areas, leading to hazy conditions and limiting visibility.
Earlier to tackled the increasing the air pollution, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday ordered to stop all civil construction activities across the national capital from June 15 to 17 to bring down the severe dust pollution.
Harsh Vardhan also urged the public to limit their period outdoors and stay inside their homes. Strong-anti cyclonic winds, blowing from Rajasthan is the reason stated behind the worsening air quality of Delhi and North India.
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