| Wednesday, 02 November 2022 |
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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
Some of us heaved a sigh of relief last week when the agencies tracking post-Diwali air quality released data that showed India’s National Capital Region (NCR) did better this year.
“This is relatively the cleanest Diwali week since 2015,” said Gufran Beig, project director at The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR).
But I guess we celebrated too soon.
Construction is now being halted in Delhi as air quality begins to deteriorate.
I know NCR is not India. Not much is written about other cities, let alone towns and villages, even when there are serious air quality issues in most parts of the country—one which requires at least 4,000 sensor-based monitors to do a proper job of it. Less than a third of those are installed today, and a large proportion is in the NCR region or in other urban pockets.
