A Delhi resident shares her harrowing experience of living through the city's severe air pollution crisis, highlighting the impact on her health and daily life.
This report is from this week's CNBC's 'Inside India' newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Like what you see? You can subscribe. The putrid burning smell, difficulty breathing and chest congestion - that is what Delhi resident Sheetal Sharma has been experiencing since end-October, no thanks to the toxic air enshrouding India's National Capital Region (NCR).
'Delhi feels right out of a dystopian movie. The air quality deteriorated very quickly post-Diwali from poor to severe in a matter of hours and has continued that way till now,' Sharma told CNBC's Inside India, alluding to the popular national festival. The air quality index (AQI) - which measures the level of pollution in the air - has risen significantly in the last few months. The metric and subsequently edged down, only to nudge up to around 478 in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, which alongside several districts from surrounding states makes up the NCR, on Thursday. The reading remains in the hazardous range per classifications from India's government. The government body considers a good AQI reading to be between zero and 50. Readings between 200 and 400 are classified as 'poor' or 'very poor' while anything above 500 is deemed 'severe' for it has a serious impact on people with existing ailments. government to direct schools to move to hybrid mode for some grades and stagger the working hours of civil servants Still, Delhi's prolonged high AQI reading has already taken a toll on many of its denizens. Sharma recounts that she had 'no respite,' despite several courses of medication and undergoing treatment to clear her nasal passageways. Relief only came when she 'escaped' to a village near Nainital, some 300 kilometers away from Delhi. The AQI reading was just 65 there, allowing her 'cough and cold to disappear within hours, without medical aid,' Sharma, who works at a tech company, said
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