In Order to Get Out of Man-made Hell, Rules Need to be Respected and Enforced

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- Anand Neelakantan

The next four months. Farmers burn stubble to plant the next crop for around one to two weeks, and this is the primary reason for pollution for the entire season, argues another set of experts. Experiments like allowing vehicles with odd and even registration numbers to take turns polluting the cities on alternate days are implemented, but pollution marches on to unheard-of levels. Construction dust is blamed for pollution, but even remote hamlets far from major cities are choking in poisonous air. Burning of biofuels is another suspect, but didn't the government claim to have converted every home to LPG through the much-touted Ujjwala Yojana a few years back? Public transport was blamed to discharge their waste into rivers and streams, let agricultural workers saturate their land and produce with chemicals, turn a blind eye when highway builders deliver inferior pavement that disintegrates after minimal rainfall, overlook the building industry's