As smog thickened, Haryana’s air quality network went dark

As a severe smog crisis engulfed the Delhi-NCR region, the official air quality monitoring network in the neighbouring state of Haryana experienced a major blackout. A large number of its government-run air quality sensors stopped transmitting data for several days.

This failure meant that real-time pollution levels were unavailable to the public in many polluted cities at a critical time, raising questions about the reliability of the monitoring system and transparency during a public health emergency.

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