India is fighting its biggest health crisis at the moment. The air quality of the national capital has spiked as the respiratory distress speaks. The people are gasping for fresh air. When will they be able to breathe pure air? When will the government find a solution to all these air pollution woes in our country? Listen in!

Air Pollution in Delhi

क्या आपको या आपके बच्चों को दम घुटता सा महसूस होता है, क्या सांस तक लेने में मेहनत सी लगती है, सिर दुखता है और आंखों में जलन होती है. दरअसल, यह सब होता है प्रदूषण से. इन दिल्ली एनसीआर में लोग प्रदूषण की मार झेल रहे हैं. प्रदूषण का सबसे ज्यादा असर बच्चों और बुजुर्गों पर पड़ता है. सरकार प्रदूषण को बढ़ने से रोकने के लिए कुछ कदम भी उठा रहे हैं.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) according to pollution apex body Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) was 291 on Tuesday, just nine points away from 'very poor' marker. Watch this video to know more.

POLLUTION REACHES AT SEVERE STAGE IN DELHI

As the air quality index in Delhi-NCR deteriorates, the Delhi government and Centre have decided to jointly combat it from November 1st. Teams will be mandated to take action against garbage burning, stubble burning, vehicular emission/traffic choke points/measures to ease congestion, dug up and dusty roads, industrial emission, construction and demolition waste and use of power generators/DG sets.

As winter slowly sets in in North India, so is the toxic smog. The air quality in Delhi has fallen so badly already that the government's graded response action plan came into effect this week. But will this be enough? Clearly not. And what of the farm fire in Punjab and Haryana which are still a major concern. On Left, Right and Centre tonight, we have Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh answering some tough questions.

This is truly India's shame. Why did 87-year-old GD Agarwal die after he spent years fighting to save the Ganga? The veteran activist was fasting for 111 days, demanding that the government get serious about cleaning up the Ganga. His death shows that despite all the big promises and the big slogans, the effort to clean up the river has been a hollow promise.

On Prime Time, Ravish Kumar asks whether the government has done anything at all to revive River Ganga till now. Even though the PM Modi had spoken about the neglect that the river had been suffering all these years before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, has the current NDA government been able accomplish their goals of cleaning up the river? Professor GD Agarwal recently breathed his last after nearly 3 months of fasting in protest demanding an action plan to clean River Ganga. How many more such environmentalists are to lose their lives in their fight to save the national river?

On today's Prime Time, a discussion about the deteriorating air quality in NCR. We ask whether the Centre and the state governments of Delhi, UP and Haryana are doing enough to control pollution.
With Delhi's air quality levels deteriorating day by day, the Supreme Court directed the transport department of Delhi to impound diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years.