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Hundreds of Delhiites, including students from JNU, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia, staged a protestation astatine Jantar Mantar connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) demanding contiguous enactment to amended the nationalist capital's air quality.
Delhi has been battling persistently "very poor” aerial post-Diwali, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) staying supra 300 for days.
On Tuesday, the metropolis woke up to different time of toxic haze, signaling an wide AQI of 344, portion 4 monitoring stations reported contamination levels successful the “severe” category, according to CPCB data.
Citizens and students signifier a protestation against Air Pollution astatine Jantar Mantar successful New Delhi connected November 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Protesters wore industrial-grade respiratory masks arsenic symbolic props and held placards, including ones that read, “Delhi ICU mein hai, Govt kahan hai?” Several demonstrators said the deteriorating aerial had severely impacted day-to-day beingness successful bluish India.
“The prime of beingness is finished successful bluish India… We are getting wellness issues owed to atrocious air, our children are suffering. What volition we bash with a five-trillion-dollar system if citizens unrecorded successful specified an environment?” a protestor asked.
Another demonstrator, Shahid, criticised the BJP-ruled Delhi authorities for “not tackling existent issues”.
“Blaming erstwhile governments cannot spell on. The authorities ordered aerial purifiers for its offices truthful that leaders tin respire cleanable air. But what astir communal people?” helium said.
A DU student, Anjali, said they had organised a akin protestation astatine India Gate connected November 10, during which astir 15 women were detained and allegedly dropped disconnected successful Bawana precocious astatine night.
“We volition not marque bid with the situation. Clean aerial is our cardinal right,” she said.
She alleged the Delhi authorities was “manipulating AQI data”, wasting nationalist funds connected cloud-seeding contempt technological objections, and “taking nary steps to curb the causes of pollution”.
Holding a poster that read, “Plants are giving america oxygen, but are we inhaling poison?” a lad said his pharynx had been hurting owed to the rising pollution.
“Pollution should beryllium stopped. The concern is precise poor,” helium added.
On November 9, scores of people, including parents and biology activists, staged a protestation astatine the India Gate against the worsening aerial prime successful the nationalist capital. Later, immoderate protestors were besides detained by the Delhi Police citing lack of support for protest.
