Pollution levels become a major worry in Delhi

People in the capital New Delhi are in major trouble over he level of pollution that the capital is witnessing. Residents have complained about their eyes stinging and watering and of an uncomfortable feeling of "being choked". This effect is attributed to a heavy vehicular traffic in the run-up to Diwali. This has added to the woes of the administration because this is added to the respirable particles that had accumulated in the past few days from the burning of crop stubble in the neighboring states.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 8 November 2015.

Delhi is already considered to be one of the global cities which has the worst air to breathe. It had seen levels of PM2.5 (fine, respirable particles) reach an astounding 750 micrograms per cubic metres. This was 12 times the safety range for the pollutant in India and 30 times the World Health Organization's global safety benchmark.
The levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were also very high during the day.
The fact remains that the pollution in the capital of New Delhi is far from satisfactory and efforts must be taken to reduce the levels. Such pollution leads to disruption in travel by not only air and rail but by road as well.

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