Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area consistently tops world rankings for air pollution.
NEW DELHI – Confined to her family's ramshackle shanty by the toxic smog choking India's capital, Harshita Gautam strained to hear her teacher's instructions over a cheap mobile phone borrowed from her mother.
The policy impacts both the education and the broader well-being of schoolkids around the city -- much more so for children from poorer families like Gautam. Her parents both earn paltry incomes -- her polio-stricken father by working at a roadside food stall and her mother as a domestic worker. "When they are at school I don't have to worry about their studies or food. At home, they are hardly able to pay any attention," Gautam's mother Maya Devi told AFP.Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 30 million people, consistently tops world rankings for air pollution.
A study in the Lancet medical journal attributed 1.67 million premature deaths in India to air pollution in 2019. A 2021 study published in the medical journal Lung India found nearly one in three school-aged children in the capital were afflicted by asthma and airflow obstruction.
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