Timeline of pollution in Delhi
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Time period | Development summary |
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2010s | "Over the last two years, Delhi’s pollution levels were high enough to affect the respiratory and cardiac systems of even healthy people. The health impacts of this pollution may be experienced even during “light physical activity”, as IndiaSpend reported on June 15, 2018."[1] |
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Year | Month and date | Category | Details |
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1955 | "The Najafgarth drain came to be known as "sorrow of Delhi""[2] | ||
1993 – 2000 | Light pollution | Study author Pavan Kumar says New Delhi, along with Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh experienced increase in “very high light pollution intensity” in the period.[3] | |
1995 | The Indian Supreme Court asks the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to categorize all industrial units in the city according to pollution hazard they pose.[4] | ||
1996 | February | Water pollution | The Indian Supreme Court orders the Delhi state government to construct common effluent treatment plants, which the industries are required to pay for, to reduce water pollution.[4] |
1996 | April | The Indian Supreme Court orders the relocation of factories away from residential areas.[4] | |
1998 | Air pollution | The Indian Supreme Court orders a major transformation of Delhi's transportation system, in response to a public interest petition on air pollution.[4] | |
2014 | May | The World Health Organization announces New Delhi as the most polluted city in the world.[5] | |
2014 | December | Air pollution | The Centre for Science and Environment classifies the air in Delhi as “severely polluted” for over 65 per cent days.[6] |
2015 | December | Air pollution | Study shows that Delhi loses 80 lives to air pollution every day, or approximately 10,000 to 30,000 annual deaths in the city.[6][7] |
2016 | November | Air pollution | Air pollution in Delhi reaches 16 times above safe levels, and the Delhi government declares an emergency.[1] |
2017 | November | Air pollution | Delhi's air pollution raises to over 710 micrograms per cubic meter, more than 11 times the World Health Organisation’s safe limit. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) declares "a state of medical emergency".[8][9][10] |
2017 | November 25 | Air pollution | The Supreme Court of India bans the sale of firecrackers in Delhi to alleviate pollution.[11] |
2017 | December | Air pollution | During a test match between Sri Lankan and Indian cricket teams in New Delhi, Sri Lanka players begin to feel breathing problems and several players vomit both in the rest rooms and in the field and have to use face masks until the end of the match.[12] |
2018 – 2019 | November 2018 – January 2019 | Air pollution | "Toxic levels of air pollution monitored over Delhi almost every week from November 1 last year to January 6 showed that the government’s emergency plans to tackle the city’s annual crisis have failed, said a report of United Residents Joint Action or URJA, a collective of the city’s resident welfare associations."[1] |
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Despite government's emergency pollution plan, Delhi once again breathed deadly air through winter". scroll.in. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ Agarwal, S. K. Water Pollution.
- ↑ "Not just air, light pollution too is on the rise in India". scroll.in. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Bauer, Joanne R. Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments.
- ↑ Madhok, Madhok (16 October 2014). "Here is why India has no clue how bad its air pollution problem is". Quartz India. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Delhi loses 80 lives to air pollution every day, says study". downtoearth.org.in. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ "Air pollution kills 30,000 in Delhi every year". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ "Delhi doctors declare pollution emergency as smog chokes city". theguardian.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ "Delhi residents panic as 'deadly smog' returns". bbc.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ "Delhi's air pollution is triggering a health crisis". bbc.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ "Supreme Court bans sale of firecrackers in Delhi, NCR". Times of India. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ↑ Safi, Michael (2017-12-03). "Pollution stops play at Delhi Test match as bowlers struggle to breathe". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 May 2019.