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10 years. Zero compliance. Delhi’s PM 10 levels remain approx 3 times and PM 2.5 at least 2 times India’s national standards. These aren’t just numbers; they’re our children’s lungs, our families’ health & our right to breathe. As mothers, our question is simple. Who is accountable for a decade of failure? Enough of plans on paper. We need enforcement, transparency and action on the ground. Our children cannot wait another 10 years. @PMOIndia @HMOIndia

Every parent who watches their child cough on a bad air day knows what air pollution is doing to health. Yet 7 years after this national health study began, we are still waiting for the study to be completed. ₹ 12.79 crore sanctioned. ₹ 8 crore released. What exactly are we waiting for? @byadavbjp @aiims_newdelhi

Six years on, the air is still toxic, but the Warrior Moms are still louder💙 Countless protests, endless reminders… and still fighting for the basic right to breathe. Stay strong all✊💙 #CleanAirDay

As mothers, this is what worries us most; our children don’t get to choose the air they breathe. Clean air isn’t a luxury or a “green” issue, it’s about their health, their childhood & their future. We owe them better. #CleanAirDay

When facts are wrong, narratives get twisted to suit civic agencies’ shortcomings. Let’s start with the basics about pruning in Delhi; ref today’s article in @timesofindia via @kush_junglee timesofindia.indiatimes.com/… 1. Trees are our only real defence against toxic air. Air purifiers are just a band aid. Like children, trees need care. In Delhi, they are orphans, no mechanism to maintain or protect them. 2. Who’s responsible?
@MCD_Delhi @DelhiPwd @NHAI_Official @CPWDGOV @ceo_delhi 
The less said, the better. 3. PWD for example: •No horticulture wing left. •Retired officers not replaced. •Tree care left to engineering staff + contractors. •For them, Trees = collateral damage. 4. Delhi Cantonment Board: worse than PWD. 5. MCD: a handful of officers for thousands of parks. Result? Local contractors prune as per nearby house owners leading to lopsided cuts, tree imbalance, eventual falls. 6. CPWD: only agency with trained officers → relatively better. 7. Adding to ToI piece that talks about the HC quashing illegal Pruning Guidelines 2019, but misses the real issue: •No Tree Ambulances •No trained arborists •No accountability 8. Since May 2023, after HC quashed the 2019 guidelines, Tree Officers gave thousands of permissions without checks. 9. Once permission is issued, no supervision on actual ground compliance. 10. In Dec 2024, HC called this out, directing; no pruning without SOP & monitoring. 11. What we got in 2025? A lazy copy paste SOP. Unless civic bodies get their act together, Delhi’s trees will keep being butchered.
The real choice is ours; 
Healthy, cared-for environment
OR
Polluted desertification @gupta_rekha @LtGovDelhi @mssirsa @PrinSciAdvGoI

Mothers in costumes. Flooded playgrounds. Climate cakes. Ahead of the London Climate Action Week, @MayaMailer tells the story of @MothersRiseUp, mothers using art, joy and fierce love to confront the #climatecrisis. They brought a flooded playground to the doors of the Global Insurance Summit to ask; “How can you insure homes and fossil fuels? We’re not just angry. We’re mothers.” blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf…