Schools across India’s capital New Delhi have been shuttered and construction activity halted as the city was declared the world’s most polluted. The New Delhi government has also announced a ban on the entry of diesel buses.
The closures were ordered on Friday as air pollution rose to dangerous levels, with Swiss air quality monitoring group IQAir putting the Indian city at the top of a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities.
Air pollution in New Delhi usually starts getting worse from November, exacerbated by the burning of crop stubble in the states of Punjab and Haryana, part of the farm belt that borders New Delhi.
