“Wrote plea letters to chief minister”: LG VK Saxena pens letter to CM Atishi over Delhi pollution | India News

NEW DELHI: Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena wrote a letter to on Wednesday Prime Minister Atishi expressed concern over the increasing air pollution in the city and the lack of concrete measures from the government.
In the letter, Saxena said that he had written numerous “request letters to the chief ministers of neighboring states and duly acknowledged them to our own chief minister (Arvind Kejriwal), your predecessor in office”, but his requests were largely ignored.
In his letter, Saxena highlighted the dismal state of air quality in Delhi as the festive season approaches, saying the city is once again witnessing “black air pollution, gray skies not attributable to clouds and the dreaded feeling of suffocation”. . He noted that the Air Quality Index (AQI) is already nearing 400 and hospitals and OPDs are filled with patients suffering from it Breathing problems.
“We have once again been branded the most polluted city in the world. Our residents – especially the poor – are not only seeing their lives shortened due to deadly air pollution, but are also facing the loss of their livelihoods. As in the past, there is no concrete one.” “Answers are given and no solutions are offered,” wrote Saxena about his two-year term as LG of Delhi.
Explaining the main sources of pollution in the capital, the LG cited dust, vehicular emissions and solid waste burning as the main culprits. “About 36% of air pollution in the city is due to dust… The dust generated by construction and demolition waste is due to the fact that it is not processed at MCD municipal sites designated for such purposes,” explained Saxena, add that Vehicle emissions 25%, solid waste incineration 8% and biomass incineration in neighboring countries 26%.

He further argued that while Delhi has little control over pollution from neighboring states, “the remaining 74% is well within our control and could be effectively addressed with simple steps and at minimum cost if the government intended to do so.”
The LG also criticized the lack of attention to basic measures such as road repairs and dust control. “Regular repair of roads, continuous carpeting of pavements, planting of small shrubs, fodder plants and grass cover in open areas and central roadsides, porous tiling of pavements and footpaths, mechanical sweeping of streets with water wash etc “Regular vacuuming of main roads from road dust would have a salutary effect effect,” he said.