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1. Reduce Car Use With Smart Mobility Choices: Transport is one of the biggest contributors to urban pollution, but small lifestyle adjustments can dramatically reduce your impact. Choosing public transport, cycling, walking, or even carpooling just two to three days a week significantly lowers carbon emissions and reduces traffic-linked particulate matter. By consciously planning routes, combining errands, or using apps that optimise travel, you can immediately cut unnecessary trips. Even switching to electric scooters or bicycles for short distances makes a measurable difference. Smart commuting is not only good for the environment but also improves personal health, saves fuel costs, and reduces stress caused by traffic congestion. Over time, when more citizens adopt these habits, the overall air quality index (AQI) of cities improves dramatically, creating cleaner and healthier living spaces. (Image Source: ABPLIVE AI)

Delhi's December began on a chilly note, with temperatures plunging to 5.7degC, five degrees below normal for this time of year.

Delhi's air quality has deteriorated sharply, reaching severe pollution levels again. Experts warn that normalising pollution is dangerous and urge protective measures.

National Pollution Control Day 2025 highlights India's fight against pollution. Know its history, significance, key objectives, and what makes this year's observance crucial.

Mumbai's air quality has improved, alleviating concerns about potential stricter pollution measures under GRAP-4. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) confirmed that GRAP-4 is not currently necessary, but monitoring has intensified due to variable air conditions and construction activities. In a crackdown, 482 construction sites received notices for pollution violations, with 264 ordered to halt work. , Mumbai News, Times Now

The logic that the show must go on and business must remain uninterrupted is revealing. We have moulded our lives around poor AQI. Our idea of what constitutes progress and prosperity is playing havoc with children's minds and bodies.

The Chief Justice said that blaming stubble burning has become a pattern whenever air quality deteriorates in the national capital or neighbouring regions.

This four-point plan to fight pollution places a heavier burden on the state, which needs to act on a war footing.

Reactive policies and weak enforcement are pushing India deeper into a preventable public health emergency.