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Hazardous toxic haze in Delhi-NCR

Air pollution reached a very serious level on Tuesday in India's Delhi. Due to the pollution exceeding the permissible standard (tolerant level), the entire Delhi was covered in a thick mist sheet.

Since last evening, the quality and visibility of the air has been declining rapidly and due to the combination of moisture and pollutants, the city has a dense mist.

On Tuesday morning till 10 a.m., the Central Pollution Control Board described the quality of air in very severe condition, which means that pollution has reached extremely dangerous levels.

In view of the current situation, fixed measurement under the Grade Response Action Plan (GRAP) by the Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPPCA) constituted on the directions of the Supreme Court can be used in which parking charges will be increased four times Includes.

If the situation is bad and persists for at least 48 hours then the workforce under GRAP can close schools and start the even-odd plan.

Last time, the air quality reached a very critical position on October 20, one day after Diwali. Since then, the level of pollution is constantly being monitored and the quality of air is maintained at a very bad level. This is a very serious situation, but according to global standards, it is also dangerous.

The quality of the air is extremely bad, it can cause problems related to snoring when people are exposed to it for a long time, whereas being at a very serious level means that It can also affect the healthy people and can affect breath and heart patients seriously.

Dipankar Saha, CPCB's Air Lab chief, said that the air is not running at all, due to which the situation was created. At the same time, seeing the poor quality of air in Delhi, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has described it as extremely harmful to public health. Dr. K. K. Agarwal, President of IMA, has appealed to the school to close and not let people go out of the house.

The moisture present in the weather has stopped pollutants from sources located on the ground there. Skymate, the private agency of the weather, says that the neighboring Punjab and Haryana are burning large-scale straw and the air is entering the city at afternoon. In the neighboring city of Noida and Ghaziabad, the quality of air has been very serious.

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Sikkim is getting the benefit of unrest in Darjeeling this season with highest earning money in terms of tourism, because tourists are turning to Sikkim instead of Darjeeling due to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha movement. Sikkim Tourism Secretary C. Jangpo said, "There has been a sudden spurt in the tourism industry due to tension in Darjeeling."

Due to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha movement in Darjeeling, many domestic and foreign tourists planning to go there have canceled their booking and they have planned to go to Sikkim.

Jangpo said, "There are so many customers in the tourism related establishments in Gangtok and the booking has been completed for the next several days."

Sikkim Tourism Secretary said that almost all the tourists who came to visit Sikkim were either going to Darjeeling in their second phase of the trip or before they came here they went to Darjeeling. Travel operators are concerned that managing such a large number of tourists is difficult and the secretary also expressed this kind of concern.

Jangpo said, "We have been asked to provide maximum number of the tourists without compromising service standards with travel operators and hotels, because of any kind of mismanagement in this regard can lead to the defamation of the tourism industry."

Shantanu Bose, a tourist from Kolkata, said, "We went to Darjeeling to make the holidays, but only then it became all (movement). Our travel agent immediately contacted the operators in Sikkim and we were fortunate that we got the booking. "Bose told the media here that many tourists had to return from Darjeeling due to lack of booking.

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