India’s New Delhi is longing to use artificial rain to fight smog this year.
“I appeal to the federal environment minister…now in Delhi and north India, the pollution has reached the border of 400,” Environment Minister Gopal Rai said.
“The next 10 days are quite crucial…help us get permission for artificial rain, call a meeting,” he said.
About a third of Delhi’s 39 monitoring stations showed a severe AQI score of more than 400 on Tuesday, a level which affects healthy people but is more serious for those fighting disease.
Doctors at private hospitals in Delhi and its suburbs said they had seen a spike in patients with respiratory illnesses since Diwali.
Smog in Lahore
New Delhi and Lahore often ranked as the most polluted cities in the world in terms of air quality
However, Lahore’s air quality is worsening as it exceeded 1000.
The Punjab government is also considering artificial rain for the situation in Lahore.
