Delhi pollution ‘action plan’ comes into force

New Delhi banned the use of diesel generators yesterday as pollution levels in the Indian capital exceeded safe limits by more than four times. Every winter, New Delhi is enveloped in a noxious blanket of smog of car fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from stubble burning at farms outside the megacity of 20 million people. Other measures that will come into effect include banning trucks and road-rationing scheme, meaning cars with odd and even plates would be allowed on alternate days in that period.