Timeline of pollution in Delhi

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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 Event type Details
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]
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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