{"id":146981,"date":"2021-11-16T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=146981"},"modified":"2021-11-16T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:55:32","slug":"a-traffic-lockdown-may-be-what-delhi-requires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-traffic-lockdown-may-be-what-delhi-requires\/","title":{"rendered":"A traffic lockdown may be what Delhi requires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/strong>: Supreme Court described air pollution in and around Delhi city as a \u201ccrisis” and asked the Centre and Delhi administration to take action.<\/p>\n

SC has asked authorities to consider a lockdown, among other measures<\/p>\n

It has also advised the Centre to call an emergency meeting and work out specific ways to tackle the identified \u201cculprits”: construction activity, industry, transport, power and vehicular traffic, apart from stubble burning.<\/p>\n

What steps have been taken to curb pollution in NCR?<\/h5>\n

– <\/strong>Curbs on building projects, firecrackers, and diesel gen-sets<\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Momentary restrictions on industrial exhaust<\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Deals for farmers to stop setting their post-harvest waste on fire<\/p>\n

– Smog towers<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and water spraying<\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Even odd scheme, where only vehicles with odd number-plates were allowed on streets one day and even numbers the next. It did not prove helpful enough to justify the disruption caused.<\/p>\n

A full traffic lockdown of the NCR might not be a bad idea to alleviate the harmful effect of pollution.<\/p>\n

Why a full traffic lockdown can be a potential solution for Delhi’s pollution problem?<\/h5>\n

Will lower street emissions from vehicular exhaust<\/strong>: By the analysis of the Centre for Science and Environment, vehicular exhaust accounts for about half the seasonal rise in the capital\u2019s levels of pollutant particles. A full traffic lockdown for about a week or so, depending on the smoke dispersal of winds, should cause a notable reduction.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201cA traffic lockdown may be what Delhi requires<\/strong>\u201d published in Livemint<\/strong> on 16th Nov 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Supreme Court described air pollution in and around Delhi city as a \u201ccrisis” and asked the Centre and Delhi administration to take action. SC has asked authorities to consider a lockdown, among other measures It has also advised the Centre to call an emergency meeting and work out specific ways to tackle the identified… Continue reading A traffic lockdown may be what Delhi requires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-146981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704751162},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}