इस कदर मुश्किल हुआ, जीना मेरे शहर मे, साँस के हर घूँट मे बस, जहर निगलना पड़ता है

10th November 2020

Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi.

Subject: 

इस कदर मुश्किल हुआ, जीना मेरे शहर मे, 

साँस के हर घूँट मे बस, जहर निगलना पड़ता है

Dear Sir,

This is what we breathed last evening in Delhi. PM2.5 at 1058 instead of the maximum allowed 60 & PM10 at 1418, instead of the maximum allowed 100. PM2.5 was at 18 times while PM10 was at 14 times, while it is not yet Diwali:

And this is not the first time it happened here with us. It has become a routine for the last many years. We keep on Emailing, Tweeting to Authorities, but no one responds. We keep on waiting for the CHANGE, but it never comes, and this was the Status of Pollution in Delhi & around in the year 2019, as below:

This was the status of Delhi in November 2018, while on Diwali Day PM 10 Touched 4659, i.e. 47 Times of the Maximum allowed. And PM2.5 touched 3201, i.e. 53 times of the maximum allowed:

If not mistaken, this was the HT news in September 2017 - Breath Delhi Air, Die Early, which clearly showed the pollution status of our city, Delhi, The National Capital of India:

This one of my video on Air Pollution in November 2017 was widely shared by Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Movies, Daily Motion, Telegraph, etc., worldwide exhibiting a severe medical emergency in Delhi:

The Notification Dated 12^th January 2017, about Delhi, in the Gazette of India, on Page number 7/24 clearly said,”As air quality analysis shows that most of the days during winter, between October 15 and February 15, fall in the AQI categories of Very Poor and Severe, it is appropriate to implement the measures that have been proposed for the AQI categories of Severe and Very Poor all through the winter, to prevent the occurrence of severe or emergency situations”.

Chicago University says that the residents of Delhi & NCR are losing up to 6 to 9 years of their life due to Pollution. CSE says that every 3rd child in Delhi has a lung problem. UNICEF says that pollution is having a very bad impact on the brains of our children.

We tried our best to raise the issue regularly on every platform, be it Newspapers, TV Channels, or the Social Media, i.e. via our Facebook, Youtube, Twitter & Blog. We had even demanded a special fund from the Finance Minister of India for Delhi to control the pollution - B S Vohra, Environment Activist 

We had even organized a meet of RWAs to discuss the Air Pollution issues in Delhi with Ms Anumita Roy Choudhury. A large number of RWAs & Experts participated in this meet along with Local Member of Parliament:

We keep on filing RTIs on the issues concerning the masses of our city, and one of our RTI was published in Hindustan Times on the Air Pollution issues, long ago in 2013 - 14, when we had organized several Lung Check-up camps also along with CIPLA:

The situation has worsened even further. It has become much more difficult to breathe in this severely polluted air and that too amidst the fear of deadly coronavirus. Just can not understand, why no stringent measures are taken by the authorities & why the residents have to breathe in the deadly air, year after year, for the last many years. Can only say:

इस कदर मुश्किल हुआ, जीना मेरे शहर मे, 

साँस के हर घूँट मे बस, जहर निगलना पड़ता है!

May we request you to please look into it very seriously & take the stringent measures to SAVE DELHI from Air Pollution.

Warm regards,

B S Vohra

Environment Activist,

Convener - RWA Bhagidari

President - East Delhi RWAs Joint Front

www.RWABhagidari.com

www.RWABhagidari.blogspot.com