Lack of foresight. Instead of making private vehicle ownership difficult like in Singapore, vehicle sale is encouraged. The entire city is ripped up for massiv

Lack of foresight. Instead of making private vehicle ownership difficult like in Singapore, vehicle sale is encouraged. The entire city is ripped up for massive construction projects. There's massive amount of construction related debris in the air. There is a very wide spectrum of economic disparity. There is a significant section of population which probably use wood fire or coal for cooking or heating during winter months. Tonnes of wet garbage/refuse is burnt in and around the city. It doesn't rain or get very windy during the winter months thus the air remains stagnant. A very high population density. Most people don't understand the difference between fog and smog. No initiative from the government to educate the population or raise awareness. The government structure in India just lays out too many bureaucratic hurdles when an immediate action is needed in such situations. When the PM2.5 levels are 5x to 8x the safety threshold, there should be enough power and balls in the hands of some leadership to enforce a complete and indefinite curfew for greater good but sadly that will never happen. Having a month of odd-even plate curfew of private vehicles will not help clear up the air where PM2.5 levels are beyond toxic. A three days shut down of schools is not going to help as well. In my view, there should be the strictest curfew until PM2.5 levels are sustained to 100 or below for a month before anybody is even allowed to leave home unless somebody can think of a better way to save people from an upcoming epidemic of smoke/particulate related degenerative diseases which will affect an entire generation which is currently growing up in Delhi.