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Delhi primary schools to reopen on Nov 9 as air quality improves
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi primary schools will be reopened on Nov 9 while some other restrictions on outdoor activities of schools will be eased as the air quality in the national capital improves, the city government's environment minister Gopal Rai said on Monday.
"There has been an improvement in air quality in the past two days. Yesterday and today, the AQI has fallen to around 350.
"In stubble burning counts as well, there's a reduction and wind direction has changed," Rai said in a press briefing as quoted by The Indian Express.
The government offices, which were ordered to operate with 50 percent of its employees working from home, will function with full capacity.
The private construction and demolition activities will continue to remain suspended.
Last week, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addressed a joint press conference with his Punjab counterpart from his own party, Aam Aadmi Party, Bhagwant Mann, taking responsibility for the pollution.
Denying the pollution problem only exists in Delhi, Kejriwal said, "This is not the problem of only Delhi. Several north Indian cities are facing this crisis."
Kejriwal, who holds stubble burning in Punjab as a reason behind the air pollution, has assured that the problem will be solved in another year's time with the AAP government in place in Delhi's border state.
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