Looking at the Delhi skyline during winters it is understandable that gone are the days when we had fresh air to breathe The i r reparable damage done by unsustainable anthropogenic acvies is actually hing us back However its not a point of no return rather an opportunity

to make sincere efforts to protect and conserve our environment from further degradaon

The start of 2016 saw some stern acon taken by the Delhi Government and Naonal Green Tribunal to curb the rising polluon levels in the Naonal Capital Region Although experts quesoned the viability of the road raoning plan but Delhiites (despite their daily problems) came out to support the 15 day iniave

Today the me has come for people to collaborate and change our atude towards pracces that affects the environment and society at large We cannot let our future generaons suffer from the mistakes that we commit today So lets pledge to make our naon clean green and a beer place to live

CEOrsquos Note Overview

Issue 21 | January 2016

Delhi being in the news for its toxic air quality for the past few years fina l ly w o k e u p t o a n extreme measure to r e d u c e f u r t h e r emissions and hope for a cleaner air this J a n u a r y T h e O d d Even Sch eme that has been previously being implemented in various other cies globally to curb air polluon was something that was both supported and cricised by the people Though stascs suggest that only aer long term implementaon of significant measures can bring down the polluon in NCR the age old problem of traffic congeson was something that was definitely solved Now it will be interesng to know how other iniaves such as increasing green cover vaccum cleaning of roads ban on burning of wastes and shung down of the pollung industries will be enforced in future There needs to be collecve efforts from individuals companies and government to bring in the change through an-polluon measures such as carpooling greener technologies etc alongwith improvement of public transport

An Formula For An Problem EVEN ODDM a k i n g C i t i e s B r e a t h a b l e

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Impacted by Western disturbances

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AIR QUALITY Measured by PM25 (35m above ground)

Source SAFAR

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Dec 25 2015

Jan 1 2016

Jan 6 2016

Jan 9 2016

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470

467

385

333

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449

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Source All Figures as per the Naonal Air Quality Index

Polluon Monitor

Ÿ 200 teams of civil defense personnelŸ 200 of traffic policeŸ 66 of transport deptŸ 40 teams from municipal corp

Ÿ 70 extra Delhi Metro Trips on 2min 30Sec Frequency

Ÿ 3000 more buses50 reservaon for women in 1000 school buses

Ÿ 75000 autos on Pooch-O app

Ÿ 6 CentersŸ 20 MachinesŸ 1 Mobile Van

Ÿ 45 DTC teamsŸ 29 Metro teamsŸ 15 of DIMTS

Enforcement Opon Polluon Check Monitoring

ODD - EVEN Ready (15 Days Plan to check Polluon began of Friday)

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Food for Thought

Rahul Kanwalrahulkanwal

Dont know about polluon but crazy jams sure as hell are back with a vengeance on Delhis roads OddEven was a good

decongeson tool

Azmi ShabanaAzmiShabana

Honoured odd even rule and stayed home today bcoz both cars have even numbers

Kiran Bedithekiranbedi

The 2nd real test for OddEvenPlan to succeed will b when d school holidayseason endsIts then when all Delhites r truly

back using roads

Tweets of the YearScienfic reports suggest that parculate maer (PM) 25 size range can travel deep into respiratory tract sustained long term exposure can lead to chronic bronchis aggravates lung diseases causing asthma aacks and have been linked to heart aacks and cardic arrhythmias

WHO report shows that in 2012 seven million people died worldwide as a result of air polluon exposure Now the finding has more than doubled the WHOs previous esmates on deaths due to air polluon exposure

According to Delhi Economic Survey there were 8827 lakh vehicles including 2790566 cars and jeeps during 2014-15 while in 2013-14 the vehicular populaon was 8258 lakh Thus vehicular populaon in Delhi has registered over 6 increase

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