00:00But let's get a live update now. I have reporters and my colleagues joining me from across the
00:04national capital region. Shivani Sharma joins us from Anand Vihar, one of the worst polluted
00:08places in the national capital. Anmol Bali is at the IGI airport and Piyush Mishra is also with us
00:15for the political perspective on what's really happening inside parliament. Let me start with
00:20Anmol Bali. Anmol, lots of flight cancellations took place today, even Prime Minister's flight
00:26had to be delayed. What exactly is the current situation?
00:33So Anand, as you know, due to smoke, many flights have been cancelled, delayed and diverted.
00:37Currently, I am here at the IGI airport and today due to the smoke, it was seen that more than 60
00:42flights have been cancelled. Around 250 flights have been delayed and diverted to other airports
00:47due to the smoke. And currently, I'll show you the visuals. Currently, the condition of visibility
00:51is improving. But yeah, CAT 3 has been implemented by the airport authority. They have
00:56also issued a statement to the passenger that if you are coming for your journey, read about
01:01your schedule, read about your flight and then you start your journey towards the airport.
01:05So this is the current condition at the IGI airport. And according to forecast also, after
01:1110, we could also again see that a thick layer of smoke will engulf the national capital, which
01:15could impact the airport operations as well as rail operations around national capital.
01:20Right. So that's at the airport. Flights and trains both impacted over there. Shivani Sharma
01:28is here with us. Shivani, I see you at a foot over bridge over there to give us a glimpse of
01:34the visibility being absolutely poor. But give us an understanding of what's the what are people
01:40on the road saying? Through the weekend, we've had so many people fall sick. There are doctors who are
01:46saying that now their emergencies are being flooded with people who are coming with chest
01:51congestion, younger kids as well. What's your understanding?
01:58So I keep giving you the pictures because, you know, pictures speak louder than words.
02:03We know that we are in national capital region and Anand Vihar that happens to be one of the most
02:08busiest bus station, the junction where 2000 buses operate each day. Not only the DTC,
02:14the interstate buses. And after the grab for implementations, there are guidelines that the
02:19old diesel buses should not operate. But we do not visibly see any cut down in the numbers. The
02:25traffic is as usual on the road. There is the visible smog, the pollutants that are making the air
02:32poisonous here. And you know, when we talk about Anand Vihar Solal, this is the place which happens to be
02:39one of the most polluted areas of national capital. The air quality index here ranges from 250 to 749. So you
02:49can imagine the kind of poisonous air the people out here are breathing in. This is the slow poison that
02:56everyone in Delhi is forced to take in, to inhale. And why this grab for was implemented so late? This has to be
03:05answered. We see one or two sprinkler vehicles out here. But how much difference can these vehicles
03:11make is a big question. Another very important thing is that there are enforcement issues too. You
03:17know, when grab for is implemented, there are strict directions that the schools, especially for the
03:23younger children should be operated in hybrid mode. But there have been complaints that a number of schools
03:29in this area, they have not declared holiday for these children. So who is at fault when we ask
03:35questions, they say that they did not receive the messages on time. And there are enforcement issues
03:41in the national capital as well. So you see people who are here, they are the travelers who have who are
03:48in transit mostly, they are going from one state to another, there are buses lined up out here, they are
03:54forced to go because they cannot stop their lives. But there has to be some strong implementation,
04:00especially when it comes to the grab for measures, the number of buses you can see out here, the
04:04the visible pollutants in this air, which is quite unusually high at this moment too, because you know,
04:12in the morning, it is maximum due to the temperatures, then through the day, it settles down. But right now,
04:17it's still visible. So you can imagine the kind of pollutant layer, which is there in Anand Bihar
04:25area, which happens to be one of the most polluted air, when it comes to air pollution, one of the most
04:30polluted areas in Delhi, but people are out, they are going, they are not, they cannot stop their lives.
04:38But very importantly, I think, Shivani, the most important point that you've mentioned right now has
04:43been that of implementation of grab four. And I think that's something that we really need to
04:47question the government on. Why is it that a grab four was implemented late, and now the enforcement
04:53is barely there, you see traffic as usual, at least in the morning that I see, I saw while coming to
04:57office and now even behind you, it seems absolutely usual. There's nothing we don't see cut down in that
05:0250% that we, you know, used to see in early years. So that's something to, you know, look out for.
