DELHI CHOKES AFTER DIWALI DESPITE THE BAN ON CRACKERS
Delhi has now rightly attained the notorious image as one of the most polluted cities in the world especially during the winter season. This season starts with Diwali which is one of the most celebrated and popular Hindu festival in the country. The festival is marked by lighting of earthen diyas and burning of crackers which does not help the situation of rising pollution in the city. The city basically becomes a toxic gas-chamber by the time festivities die down. In order to fight with rising problem the Supreme Court in 2017 put an immediate ban on the sale of conventional crackers in the city of Delhi and NCR [1] . Also in 2018 the Supreme Court ruled that only Government approved ‘Green crackers’ with fewer emissions shall be allowed. Even after such ban, the pollution level in Delhi along with that of NCR has reached to such critical level that we are basically living in situation of health emergency. After Diwali the AQI (Air Quality Index) dived to the level of ‘ver...