A group of minor schoolchildren have moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to ensure that outdoor sports trials and tournaments for school students are not scheduled in the national capital during the peak winter pollution months of November to January (Nyasa Bedi Vs Government of Delhi) . The petition, filed through their guardians, states that year after year, authorities continue to conduct zonal, inter-zonal, state and national-level outdoor sporting events at a time when Delhi’s air quality is verifiably and foreseeably ‘severe’ and ‘hazardous’. According to the petitioners, this repeated scheduling forces children, recognised as a vulnerable group, to undertake strenuous physical activity in toxic air, violating their fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 21A

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