Air pollution levels in the national capital will come back to normal within the “next few days”, Union Minister for Environment and Science and Technology, Harsh Vardhan, said here on Thursday and advised people against panic.
While speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of an event organised at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) near here, he claimed that the pollution levels had dropped in Delhi considerably over the last 24 hours.
Weather conditions
“As for the steps to be taken by the Delhi government, they should be doing it with total sincerity. So also State governments of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. They all have to step in to fulfil their part of the responsibility. And I am sure in the next few days things will return to normal,” Mr. Vardhan said.
“All this actually gets precipitated because of weather conditions. There was some moisture which came from Eastern UP and then wind speed and all is not there. As such this particulate matter accumulated in the atmosphere,” the Minister said.
Action plan
“It is expected that in the next 24 hours, the wind speed will further improve and with all these measures that are being taken by the various governments and the Central government, we are trying to ensure that the immediate action plan is implemented in totality,” he stated.
The Minister for Science and Technology advised the residents of Delhi to stay indoors.
