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New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) Scores of people, including parents and environmental activists, staged a protest at the India Gate on Sunday against the worsening air quality in the national capital.

The protesters, many of them mothers accompanied by children, said they had gathered to demand urgent government action to ensure clean air.

“We want to meet our elected officials. We had sought an appointment with the chief minister but were refused. So many parents are here because their children are suffering," environmentalist Bhavreen Khandari said.

“Every third child already has damaged lungs; they will live nearly 10 years less than those growing up in cleaner air," she said.

Another protester, Abhishek, said the government had failed to provide even the basic right

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