New Delhi:
Air pollution is an all-India crisis, with many parts of North India recording severe air pollution, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today as air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the ‘severe’ category for the second consecutive day.
“We take full responsibility for increasing farm fires in Punjab,” he said, adding that it has been just six months since they formed a government in Punjab. “We have taken steps to control it. Stubble burning will come down by next year,” he said.
The Aam Admi Party Convenor reiterated that the central government has to come up with a joint action plan to tackle air pollution and it’s not a time to point fingers.
“The Kejriwal government is not solely responsible for the worsening air quality,” he said at a press conference today with party colleague and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann by his side.
Mr Mann said that stubble burning is increasing because farm produce is also at record highs.
A forecasting agency has revealed that stubble-burning contributed 34 per cent to the national capital’s PM 2.5 pollution.
People of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday woke up with complaints of choking and ‘eye burning’ due to smog and air pollution leaving people gasping for breath.
