Live updates: Delhi wakes up from its nightmare, for now

Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday lashed out the AAP government asking whether it was following the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) directives aimed at combating the severe air pollution in the national capital. Responding to questions over rising air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region, Javadekar said his ministry has already held several meetings with the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan over stubble burning.

With the poor air quality in Delhi and surrounding regions leading to a public health emergency, social media on Sunday was abuzz with discussions over the possibility of the polluted air in the national capital getting pushed down the east coast to Chennai by next week.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday carpooled with his ministerial colleagues Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai, in an attempt to encourage the practice of sharing vehicles during the odd-even period. AAP leader and labour minister Gopal Rai stated that they will be defeating the menace of pollution through this initiative.

The first-ever high resolution emission inventory of major pollutants in Delhi-NCR, done by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, under ministry of earth sciences (MoES), showed that the share of vehicular emissions increased not only in Delhi but also in the entire NCR in 2018 as compared to 2010. It showed increase in share of transport sector in overall PM2.5 emissions from 25.4% in 2010 to 41% in 2018 in the capital, and from 32.1% in 2010 to 39.1% in 2018 in the NCR.