The long road to clean air: No silver bullet for Delhi's pollution woes

The disinclination for National Capital Region administrations to promote public transport is adding to pollution woes each winter

Pollution in the National Capital Region of Delhi has revived memories of Covid-19 induced lockdown with the closure of schools, a work from home direction for Delhi government offices and a similar advisory for private offices.

Staying indoors has been a norm across the world in the Covid-19 times but any directive on pollution-induced stay-at-home orders is an admission that poor air quality is a health emergency that the combined efforts of the executive and the judiciary have been unable to address. Though a lockdown is not expected immediately because of improved air quality, construction and fossil fuel-based industrial activity is