Stop misleading people: Kejri to Central agencies

New Delhi, October 16 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday dismissed as “misleading” a Central Government agency’s claim that stubble-burning is responsible for only 10 per cent of the city’s pollution and asserted that no agency has the “specific machinery” to measure either the component or the causes of pollution. 

The CM said these “guessing games” should be stopped and the agencies should behave more responsibly about the figures and data they share. 

SAFAR, the ministry of earth science’s air quality and weather forecast service, had in a recent report said that the share of stubble-burning in the PM 2.5 concentration in Delhi has remained less than 10 per cent so far. PM 2.5 stands for particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter. 

Particles narrower than 10 micrometres are the most hazardous because they can get deep into the lungs, and some may even get into the bloodstream. The CM also issued a statement, saying until a solution to the pollution coming from outside is found, the people of Delhi will keep “suffering”. — PTI

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The components of pollution can only be measured by a machinery, which is owned by none of the agencies that claim figures on the stubble-burning.  —Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM