Authorities in New Delhi have shut factories and construction sites, restricted diesel vehicles and deployed water sprinklers and anti-smog guns to control haze and smog enveloping the skyline of India's capital region.
Sarvjeet Singh, a 48-year-old autorickshaw driver, said the smog was hurting his eyes and he was finding it difficult to breathe. “There are problems, especially in the morning. It’s difficult to drive my vehicle because of the pollution. My autorickshaw is open. It will affect us more than people in cars. We have to work, what can we do?”
“I feel a lot of heavy breathing here because of the pollution. I could barely see up to 100 meters or 200 meters ,” he said. New Delhi tops the list almost every year among the many Indian cities gasping for breath after the Diwali festival celebrations with their massive lighting of firecrackers. The crisis is exacerbated particularly in the winter when the burning of crop residues in neighboring states coincides with cooler temperatures that trap deadly smoke. That smoke travels to New Delhi, leading to a surge in pollution in the city of more than 20 million people.
It said the overall air quality in New Delhi is likely to remain in the “severe” or “very severe” categories until Saturday. An Environment Ministry review will be held on Monday.
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