With Delhi's AQI Deteriorating By The Day, People Are Saying It's Time To Shift The National Capital
As the apocalyptic haze engulfs all of Delhi NCR people living in the gas chamber are growing angrier by the day. The national capitals 24-hour average air quality index AQI stood at 494 at 4pm on Sunday the highest since November 6 2016 when it was 497 A public health emergency was also declared in the capital on Friday and construction activity has been banned until November 5. In this dismal scenario people say that Delhi is undeserving of the...Read More
As the apocalyptic haze engulfs all of Delhi NCR, people living in the 'gas chamber' are growing angrier by the day.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the national capital's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 494 at 4pm on Sunday, the highest since November 6, 2016 when it was 497.
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A public health emergency was also declared in the capital on Friday and construction activity has been banned until November 5.
In this dismal scenario, people say that Delhi is undeserving of the national capital status. While some suggested cities like Nagpur, Bengaluru or Chennai as alternatives, others cited umpteen reasons why Delhi should forgo the title.
#1
I feel soon India will need to shift it's capital. Delhi can't sustain this way.
¡ª Ram (@TheChakravartin) November 1, 2019
#2
Time to shift the capital from Delhi to some other place, I guess.....
¡ª Siddhartha Shukla (@vishsa252) November 3, 2019
#3
Delhi is toxic anyway. Sud shift capital now.
¡ª Ting Tong (@Pushyabhuti_) November 1, 2019
#4
Delhi is toxic anyway. Sud shift capital now.
¡ª Ting Tong (@Pushyabhuti_) November 1, 2019
#5
Shift the capital to south . How long we have to come to Delhi ! https://t.co/K1TWXFNoaR
¡ª swamilion (@swamilion) November 3, 2019
#6
This entire choking of Delhi makes me see what is happening around the world. Indonesia is shifting it's capital. Australia has Canberra for smooth admin functioning only. Why not have two to four capitals in India?
¡ª Abhishek Singhvi (@DrAMSinghvi) November 4, 2019
#7
Leaving Delhi is not the solution to the problem. Changing mindset of people who are polluting Delhi is the answer. Tugalaq ( great economist) left Delhi as capital and came back. Give solution to the problem please!!! https://t.co/zU2jhrhAa8
¡ª Ravi Shankar Jandhyala (@RaviSha64106690) November 3, 2019
#8
Visibility from balcony, two months back as compared to today. #Gurgaon #DelhiAirEmergency #DelhiChokes pic.twitter.com/hetND6HM5P
¡ª Aditi Mathur Kumar (@adicrazy) November 2, 2019
#9
#changeIndiaCapital
¡ª Rajat (@rjdrock) November 4, 2019
India should consider switching its capital from Delhi to a new UT which should be carved out at the junction of UP, MP, Chattisgarh, and Bihar. It will reduce pressure on Delhi and would help in development of areas nearby which are most underdeveloped
#10
Every image or video that I am seeing of New Delhi, the capital of India, is making me choke sitting here in Hyderabad. We, humans, also must have a change of attitude. High time. What are you leaving for gen-next? #DelhiAirEmergency #DelhiPollution #Delhi https://t.co/0tNaIs9gk2
¡ª Arpita Ghosh (@Arpita0019) November 3, 2019
From traffic problems, pollution, to safety of women, there is a range of issues that have affected the national capital's reputation; pollution has pushed things to the point of saturation.
A new analysis of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), shows the average citizen living in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) region of India, can expect to lose about 7 years of life expectancy because of air quality which fails to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) guideline for fine particulate pollution.
This is due to a 72 percent increase in pollution from 1998 to 2016, in the region that is home to about 40 percent of India's population.
