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Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday said the substantial decline in the Air Quality Index (AQI) has been due to the government’s efforts and asserted that the pollution stations are “tamper-proof” amid allegations of fudged data.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had also said that pollution data cannot be manipulated or tampered with.

The Aam Aadmi Party has criticised the government’s cloud seeding trials and accused the BJP government in Delhi of shutting down pollution monitoring stations and manipulating the AQI data on Diwali night to conceal the grim situation.

Addressing a press conference, Sirsa said, “I want to clarify that all monitoring stations are tamper-free and they are monitored by CPCB and CAQM,” he s

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