00:00But the story that's breaking, the national capital's air quality has just worsened to very poor,
00:05once again raising serious questions over anti-pollution measures.
00:10Grab two measures that put various restrictions on construction have been imposed in Delhi NCR.
00:16The Supreme Court has allowed green crackers, though, for Diwali in Delhi for a limited period.
00:21They will get the nod from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
00:25on November 7th and 8th.
00:27Not only to certified green crackers with a QR code.
00:31The Supreme Court has warned against use of fake green crackers.
00:35So clearly, once again, after a relatively pollution or less polluted October,
00:41the air is once again ahead of Diwali, threatening to get worse amidst reports of also stubble burning continuing in
00:48Punjab.
00:49Anmol Bali now joins us.
00:51Anmol, what exactly is the Delhi government planning?
00:54Do they have a plan of action at all?
00:57Given that suddenly in November, the air quality is dipping once again.
01:03Rajiv, today we have seen that air quality has surpassed 300 park and we have seen that CAQM has imposed
01:09grab two.
01:10We will be seeing that demolition and construction activities in the national capital will be banned.
01:16And we will also see that the government will ask 50% of the employees from both government and private
01:22sector to move to the work from home.
01:24And various of the plans from the winter action plan have been implemented by the Delhi government.
01:28But this looks good on the paper.
01:30But when we talk about the implementation, because curbing pollution is just not about the policy.
01:34It's about the implementation of the policy.
01:36It's not about the rules.
01:38It is about how people follow that rules.
01:40That all depends on how we will decrease pollution level in the national capital.
01:45But from the last two days, we are seeing that winter action plan has been implemented by the Delhi government.
01:50But still, we are seeing that pollution is increasing in the national capital.
01:53And today, the AQI has surpassed the 300 mark.
01:57Okay, so clearly the government now is once again having to get into damage control and crisis management mode.
02:05We will have more on that story.
02:07Remember, the government in Delhi often blames the government in Punjab for stubble burning.
02:12While stubble burning of fires has come down in the last few weeks.
02:16The question is, what can be done as a long-term solution?
02:20We will have more on that later this week in our special focus on India's war on pollution.
