Delhi Gasps For Air As AQI Worsens, Student Group Calls For Protest March

Student Groups Call For Protest Over Pollution

Student organisation DISHA have called for a protest march over the rising air pollution in the national capital, calling out the Central Government and the BJP. The student group has called for a protest on November 11, from Ramlila Maidan to Jantar Mantar.

As Delhi struggles with polluted air, a Parliamentary committee has decided to drop the key issue of air pollution in NCR from the agenda of its November 17 meeting, prompting a Congress member to raise strong objections with the panel chairperson.The Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs had earlier decided to hear the views of the Ministry of Home Affairs and agencies concerned on the issue and hold a discussion.

The panel circulated the agenda for the meeting, which included the air pollution issue, among its members on November 5, but dropped the topic from its revised agenda. Congress member Ajay Maken has raised strong objections to the omission of the air pollution issue and has written to the committee chairperson, Radha Mohan Das Agrawal.

Agrawal, when contacted, said he was not aware of the letter by Ajay Maken. "I am ignorant of the letter," he told PTI when asked about…

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