Smog delays Sheila Dikshit's flight to Punjab

LUDHIANA: A private Ludhiana trip by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit in a chartered flight along with a leading telecom industrialist family became the flashpoint of the ongoing pollution slugfest between Delhi and Punjab when the plane was delayed by nearly three hours on Saturday.

The private Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, which was initially scheduled to arrive at 9.45am, landed at 12:24pm due to low visibility, said the ATC operator at Halwara airport managed by the Indian Air Force.

Dikshit, who was supposed to first visit a school for underprivileged kids at Mohi near Halwara, skipped the event and directly rushed to Nehru Sidhant Kender Trust, managed by the industrialist family.

At the end of her meeting, while addressing reporters, Dikshit reasoned her delay due to smog which is allegedly caused by paddy stubble burning in Punjab.

"Now, I completely believe what Nasa experts found out on burning of paddy straw in Punjab. In their own state, there is so much smoke and pollution that our flight was held up for so long before we got clearance from the Halwara airport," she remarked.

Dikshit, who holds the environment portfolio, also said her government had enough facts to present a case in the apex court that the smog crisis in Delhi was not because of vehicular pollution. On November 9, the Supreme Court had expressed concern over the rising pollution and smog in Delhi and asked the government to find ways to deal with it. However, Dikshit had blamed Punjab and UP for the pollution in Delhi.

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