With Only 107 City Buses, Lucknow Forced To Drive. Pollution At Record High

In an emergency response to the escalating air pollution levels in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, the district administration has put a ban on bursting of crackers at all public events till January next year. Since the last fortnight, while the focus has been on the emergency-like situation in Delhi and how the national capital has turned into a gas chamber, what has largely gone unnoticed is how cities in UP like Ghaziabad and Lucknow have actually topped the air pollution charts.