Assignment- 1

News Report-1

Air Quality Index has become toxic for the Delhi People

This year the Air quality index has gone much worst than the
previous years. Every year the air quality get’s affected after the
festival of Diwali but this year it got affected before it. The
burning of the crop leftover by the farmers and a fall in the wind
speed and temperatures pushed air quality to the worst levels in
around a year.

A layer of smog lingered over the national capital and its

suburbs and as a result the skies hung heavy and acrid over the
region, people complained of itchy throats and watery eyes.

Experts said unfavourable meteorological conditions calm winds

and low temperatures and smoke from farm fires in
neighbouring states led to a dense layer of haze as the air quality
index entered the "severe" zone.
Health experts said that during the corona virus pandemic, air
pollution has become a serious health concern for about the two
crore residents of the national capital.

According to a doctor at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, intake of

every 22 micrograms per cubic metre of polluted air is
equivalent to smoking a cigarette.

"I can feel the pollutants in my throat despite wearing a mask.

My eyes are burning. It is going to make the pandemic worse. I
am scared," said Madhvi Maheshvari, a resident of Vivek Vihar.