Air Quality in the New Delhi Metropolis under COVID-19 Lockdown

Abstract

Air pollution has been on continuous rise with increase in industrialization in metropolitan cities of the world. Several measures including strict climate laws and reduction in the number of vehicles were implemented by several nations.The COVID-19 pandemic provided a great opportunity to understand the daily human activities effect on air pollution. Majority nations restricted industrial activities and vehicular traffic to a large extent as a measure to restrict COVID-19 spread. In this paper, we analyzed the impact of such COVID19-induced * A part of this research was conducted while D. Kaloni was doing an internship at ADAPT