Suggest a few ideas how development communication strategies can help reducing air
pollution in a metropolitan Indian city like Delhi.
Delhi’s air quality has been severe as pollution levels touched a new high in this winters. Levels of particulate matter finer than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) crossed the 900 mark in some areas, recording almost 15 times the safety limit.( Safe limit pm2.5 -60 pm10–100) .
This is the situation of not just delhi but most urban areas of India. The pollution has almost become routine and situation calls for taking urgent steps which long lasting and not just knee jerk solution. Some of the steps that could be taken are:
Seeking long term solution to straw burning: According to M.S. Swaminathan(father of green revolution)india produces 140 million tonnes of paddy and 280 million tonnes of rice straw in a year. We have to find ways to use paddy straw instead of burning it. It is not expected from farmers to stop burning paddy straw as he has to prepare his field for the next crop. Commercialisation of straw will be a long-term solution. Some ways could be:
A technology developed in Maharashtra could be promoted which uses paddy straw as animal feed.
Employing technology to use this stubble not just as animal feed but for cardboard paper and other products can be experimented with.
Pilot projects to produce power using biomass as demonstrated
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