Environmentalist, Founder @swechhaindia . Edn- St Stephen's College,TISS. Never Neutral, Always Truthful.
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A story of change from my team, that each Residential Colony should adopt n do to their parks. A park that had less than 5% green cover in 2008, has 95% green cover in 2019, with increased water table, improved air quality n drop in temp. Congratulations @swechhaindia – at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
It’s like saying 102 fever and 106 fever is the same, both qualifies as high fever and therefore why bother to measure or intervene!!
This is the scientific temperament of the only and the topmost pollution management body of our country.
good morning, permission expired on Nov 8 at 10 pm. Thank you for your attention (non-attention) and being such a softy for a change!
🚨 अनुमति समाप्त! अब पटाखे जलाना प्रतिबंधित है।
पटाखे जलाने की अनुमति केवल 7 और 8 नवंबर को निर्धारित समयावधि के दौरान ही थी। अब पटाखे जलाने या निर्धारित नियमों का उल्लंघन करने वालों के विरुद्ध सख्त कानूनी कार्रवाई की जाएगी।
नियमों का सम्मान ही जिम्मेदार नागरिक की पहचान है।
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Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
Firecrackers do contribute to bad levels of PM2.5, but it doesn't last for more than 24 or 48 hours at max... but even before Nov 8 (day of Diwali), the AQI levels were more than 300-400 on average. What about that?: ＠hjethva05
Is stubble burning the main reason for Delhi's pollution? Not at all!: ＠vimlendu tells ＠Shreyadhoundial
Can citizens invoke Article 21 against the judiciary that knowingly allows a city to become a gas chamber while failing to protect the very right to life it is constitutionally bound to uphold? Is this grounds for a writ of mandamus, or has judicial abdication itself become the question? @sanjayuvacha @advbharatchugh
Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
With firecrackers being burst non stop all around at 11.30 pm, it’s clear that in India, even firecrackers have learnt that court orders are merely advisory and that our courts have banned crackers, not the contempt for their orders.
With firecrackers being burst non stop all around at 11.30 pm, it’s clear that in India, even firecrackers have learnt that court orders are merely advisory and that our courts have banned crackers, not the contempt for their orders.
Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
Best way to solve pollution crisis is to turn off the monitors. There is no pollution, therefore.
Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
Most monitors are in ‘safe’ areas, rather than in the middle of where the ‘activity’ or population is. It gives a notion of better than the actual AQI, also given that our permissible PM 2.5 standards are FOUR times the WHO standards of 15.
Ideally, with approx 1500 sa km of Delhi’s area, and almost 60 AQI monitors runs by the government, each monitor should present a very decentralized/localized and granular diagnosis of sources of pollution, so as to guide appropriate governance action for 25 sq kms.
ONLY if there was real data collection, and data guided steps.
High time we move away from smog guns and water sprinklers, that create a false optics of ACTION.
Judge Sahabs, Thankyou for prioritizing clean air for our children, over the right to burst firecrackers.
Most monitors are in ‘safe’ areas, rather than in the middle of where the ‘activity’ or population is. It gives a notion of better than the actual AQI, also given that our permissible PM 2.5 standards are FOUR times the WHO standards of 15.
Ideally, with approx 1500 sa km of Delhi’s area, and almost 60 AQI monitors runs by the government, each monitor should present a very decentralized/localized and granular diagnosis of sources of pollution, so as to guide appropriate governance action for 25 sq kms.
ONLY if there was real data collection, and data guided steps.
High time we move away from smog guns and water sprinklers, that create a false optics of ACTION.
Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
In 2017, Beijing's city government alone budgeted more than ¥18 billion, about ₹17,500 crore, for a single year of air-pollution control. Between 2013 and 2017, Beijing's average PM2.5 fell by about 35%.
Clean air is not an expense to postpone. We already pay for dirty air in hospital bills, lost workdays and lives cut short, and none of it builds anything.
Vimlendu Jha विमलेंदु झा retweeted
India's clean-air bill is already being paid. Just not by the budget.
A new FICCI–EY report, Clean Air, Healthy India, puts air pollution's toll at up to 9.5% of India's GDP in 2022, counting the value of lives cut short. That is the Lancet Countdown's estimate: about ₹26.7 lakh crore in a single year. Separately, the report cites Dalberg's estimate of about US$95 billion a year in business losses.
Over seven years, the Centre released ₹16,424 crore to 130 cities for cleaner air. By July 2026, cities had reported using about 70% of it.
India's clean-air bill is already being paid. Just not by the budget.
A new FICCI–EY report, Clean Air, Healthy India, puts air pollution's toll at up to 9.5% of India's GDP in 2022, counting the value of lives cut short. That is the Lancet Countdown's estimate: about ₹26.7 lakh crore in a single year. Separately, the report cites Dalberg's estimate of about US$95 billion a year in business losses.
Over seven years, the Centre released ₹16,424 crore to 130 cities for cleaner air. By July 2026, cities had reported using about 70% of it.
In 2017, Beijing's city government alone budgeted more than ¥18 billion, about ₹17,500 crore, for a single year of air-pollution control. Between 2013 and 2017, Beijing's average PM2.5 fell by about 35%.
Clean air is not an expense to postpone. We already pay for dirty air in hospital bills, lost workdays and lives cut short, and none of it builds anything.
