NEW DELHI (The Thursday Times) — Regulators ke mutabiq is hafte Bharat ke darul-hukoomat mein smog itni shadeed thi ke aaloodgi napne wale aalaat apni balai had se aage nikal gaye, jo WHO ki tajweez karda yomia had ke 66 guna ke barabar hai. Yeh baat opposition rehnumaon ke is ilzam ke baad samne aayi ke hukkam ne badtareen readings chhupayin.
Itwar aur peer ki darmiyani raat fazai miyar ke stations kai ghante tak reporting band rakhe rahe, ain us waqt jab Diwali ki aatish-bazi se aaloodgi barh gayi. Aatish-bazi ke urooj ke taqreeban aath ghante baad jab monitor dobara chale to Mandir Marg mein shehri hukoomat ke aik station ne fi muka'ab meter 879 microgram bareek zarraat record kiye, jo WHO ki 15 ki yomia had se 58 guna se zyada hai.
‘Data fraud’
Aam Aadmi Party ke Delhi ke sadar Saurabh Bharadwaj ne kaha, “Jo hukoomat Diwali ki raat fazai miyar ki nigrani ke stations band kar de, jo hukoomat data fraud kare, us par kaise bharosa kiya jaye?”
Congress ke senior rukn Ajay Maken ne sawal kiya, “Agar Diwali ki raat ka PM2.5 record mein nahin, to us hawa ka jawab kaun dega?” Un ki jamaat ke saathi Pawan Khera ne kaha, “Data ghaib ho jane ka matlab yeh nahin ke aaloodgi bhi ghaib ho gayi hai.”
Central Pollution Control Board ne jaan boojh kar kam reporting ka ilzam mustarad kar diya. 2015 mein National Air Quality Index ke aaghaz par nasb zarraat napne wale aalaat fi muka'ab meter 1,000 microgram tak napne ke liye banaye gaye hain, aur is se zyada readings ko had se bahar samajh kar hisaab se nikal diya jata hai. Board ne kaha, “Ghair-mamooli mauqon par, jaise Diwali par aatish-bazi, yeh mutaliqa station par data ke khala ki soorat mein nazar aa sakta hai.”
Smog sarhad par nahin rukti. Is hafte ke aaghaz mein Lahore dunya ki aaloodgi ki fehrist mein sar-e-fehrist raha, aur smog ke baais Sri Lanka ke khilaf doosra Test shehar se muntaqil karna para.
