Need to protect children from toxic air: CM
The Hindu
Kejriwal chairs emergency meeting on pollution, says Govt. drafting proposal on lockdown possibility
Protecting children from “breathing toxic air” was of paramount importance to the Delhi Government, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday after chairing an emergency meeting over the grave pollution situation in the Capital.
In the meeting it was decided that physical classes will be shut at both Government and private schools for a week and education of children will continue online, Mr. Kejriwal’s office announced.
All Government offices will be closed for one week in a bid to reduce vehicular traffic. Construction activity will be prohibited for three days between November 14 and 17 as weather forecasts are indicating a “fatal pollution situation” during the period.