Overview
- Manickam Tagore labeled Delhi–NCR’s toxic air a human crisis and pressed for an immediate, time-bound clean-air plan modeled on Beijing.
- Speaking during Zero Hour, he alleged authorities were manipulating AQI readings by spraying water near monitoring stations rather than cutting emissions.
- He urged strict deadlines, industrial reforms, rapid electrification of public transport, and stronger penalties for violators to deliver measurable improvements.
- Tagore warned that children are missing school, outdoor work is untenable, and hospitals are filling with respiratory and cardiac cases.
- In the same session, TMC’s Saugata Roy protested alleged withholding of central funds to West Bengal, and Congress MP Balwant B. Wankhede sought easier rail reservations for Army personnel.