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The Supreme Court of India today ordered the authorities in New Delhi, the capital of smog, to set up checkpoints on 113 roads in the city to prevent the entry of polluting vehicles.
More than 30 million people were killed by traffic this month in deadly traffic, and pollution levels exceeded the daily limit of the World Health Organization, which was recommended by more than 60 times at the beginning of the week. The Delhi government has launched several campaign plans to tackle what is becoming a public health problem year after year, with limited success.
One current measure is to ban the entry of diesel trucks and other commercial vehicles – a policy that the Supreme Court ruled was not being implemented properly. “In terms of the reception, we are not satisfied,” the court said, according to the Indian legal news site Livelaw.
A court-appointed official told the judges that only 13 of the 113 entry points in the city were being checked by officials, which angered the judges. “The percentage of pollution caused by these trucks is very high,” the court said.
“With regard to the entry of trucks, there is no established procedure.”
The court ordered the city government and police to “ensure that checkpoints are immediately set up” at the remaining 100 roads entering the city. New Delhi is consistently ranked among the most polluted cities in the world and is shrouded in smog every year.
The pollution is often attributed to agricultural fires set by neighboring farmers to clear their fields before planting, as well as dust from factories and vehicles. The cool temperatures and low winds make the situation worse by dealing with deadly pollution every winter.
A study published in the medical journal Lancet said that 1.67 million people died prematurely in India due to air pollution in 2019. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that clean air is a human right, allowing the federal and state governments to take more stringent measures.
