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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
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Delhi's air becomes more dangerous during Diwali

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Indian National Captial -- New Delhi’s -- air pollution hit dangerous levels as the country celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and firecrackers, stated report of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Diwali is festival of fireworks and firecrackers. It was celebrated on Sunday.  The World Health Organization recommends that PM2.5 is kept below 10 as an annual average. It says exposure to average annual concentrations of PM2.5 of 35 or above is associated with a 15% higher long-term mortality risk. During Diwali, various parts of Delhi, PM2.5 levels increased to 1,238 on Sunday, compared with 435 the same day of the festival a year earlier. 
Air pollution in Delhi
 It is the 11th worst polluted city in the world, with an annual average PM2.5 measurement of 122.  Average air-quality index reading for Delhi in October 2015 was considered “poor” according to the CPCB ’s air quality index bulletin. A CPCB official claimed that burning of solid waste and crops particularly in Haryana, Punjab and Eastern Uttar Pradesh also increased pollution along with vehicular emissions and dust from construction sites in Delhi are major contributors to the city’s smog. Another CPCB official stated that the capital’s problem was accentuated on  Sunday by relatively low winds and lower temperatures, meaning that pollutants weren’t dispersed.

"Firecrackers and fireworks set off during the Diwali celebrations “may have added” to the city’s pollution levels, said Dr Pankaj Chandra, an environment expert. “We need to make people aware that their activities should not release more emission when our air is already so polluted,” he said.
Diwali celebration firecrackers

The United Nations Children’s Fund in a report entitled “Clean the Air for Children,” released Sunday, said that nearly 20% of the world’s children who live in India risked developing life-long health complications due to air pollution and in some cases even death.

“Children are uniquely vulnerable to air pollution – due both to their physiology as well as to the type and degree of their exposure,” said the report. That is because they breathe twice as fast as adults, taking in more air and pollutants which can adversely affect their growth and immune system. The report said that outdoor air pollution in India exceeds nearly six times that of limits considered safe internationally, while more than half of the country’s population still burns solid fuels for cooking and heating, often the causes of ill health and early death in children.
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