Lok Sabha MP from Chandigarh, Manish Tewari, on Thursday gave a notice to adjourn all proceedings of the House to discuss the growing air pollution challenge.

“I move that this House do suspend Question Hour, Zero Hour, and all other listed business of the day to take up an urgent matter of grave public importance, the catastrophic air pollution crisis that has transformed Delhi-NCR and the entire Indo-Gangetic Plain into lethal gas chambers and is triggering a national public health emergency of unprecedented scale,” Tewari said in his notice to the Lok Sabha Secretary General.

He warned that toxic air is now robbing millions of Indian citizens of years of their lives.

“Residents of this region stand to lose up to seven years of life expectancy. Medical experts from Sir Ganga Ram Hospi

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