Chetan Bhattacharji
@cbhattacharji.bsky.social
The Climate journo, consultant for climate comms, media strategy; ex senior managing editor, NDTV 24x7.
RTs ≠ endorsements. Editorial trainer; writing @ Health Policy Watch, NDTV, ORF, The Hindu, WhatAmIBreathing substack
https://chetanbhattacharji.com
RTs ≠ endorsements. Editorial trainer; writing @ Health Policy Watch, NDTV, ORF, The Hindu, WhatAmIBreathing substack
https://chetanbhattacharji.com
Making data harder to get in digital India 👇🏾
Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘expose’, access to voter rolls hits a snag - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp
@thehindu.com
Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘expose’, access to voter rolls hits a snag - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp
@thehindu.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Making data harder to get in digital India 👇🏾
Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘expose’, access to voter rolls hits a snag - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp
@thehindu.com
Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘expose’, access to voter rolls hits a snag - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp
@thehindu.com
The first budget by Delhi’s new BJP govt has some positives for air quality but overall it is a missed opportunity for slashing the capital’s notorious #airpollution
I write in👇🏾opinion piece - Why Delhi’s budget missed the bus to slash air pollution
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi...
I write in👇🏾opinion piece - Why Delhi’s budget missed the bus to slash air pollution
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi...
March 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The first budget by Delhi’s new BJP govt has some positives for air quality but overall it is a missed opportunity for slashing the capital’s notorious #airpollution
I write in👇🏾opinion piece - Why Delhi’s budget missed the bus to slash air pollution
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi...
I write in👇🏾opinion piece - Why Delhi’s budget missed the bus to slash air pollution
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi...
First women focused headline I come across on #WomensDay 👇🏾
Women elected to local government posts, their husbands take oath.
Via indianexpress.com
Women elected to local government posts, their husbands take oath.
Via indianexpress.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
First women focused headline I come across on #WomensDay 👇🏾
Women elected to local government posts, their husbands take oath.
Via indianexpress.com
Women elected to local government posts, their husbands take oath.
Via indianexpress.com
2 noteworthy stories yesterday
1. Roof collapse kills many in Serbia, leads to fall of govt
2. High fines tame unruly traffic in Vietnam
1. Roof collapse kills many in Serbia, leads to fall of govt
2. High fines tame unruly traffic in Vietnam
January 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
2 noteworthy stories yesterday
1. Roof collapse kills many in Serbia, leads to fall of govt
2. High fines tame unruly traffic in Vietnam
1. Roof collapse kills many in Serbia, leads to fall of govt
2. High fines tame unruly traffic in Vietnam
New data shows air pollution increased in Delhi and several other places in 2024. The upcoming national Budget is an opportunity to fund impactful change.
Here are 3 - possibly breakthrough - initiatives
open.substack.com/pub/whatamib...
#Budget2025
#airpollution
#indiabudget
Here are 3 - possibly breakthrough - initiatives
open.substack.com/pub/whatamib...
#Budget2025
#airpollution
#indiabudget
January 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
New data shows air pollution increased in Delhi and several other places in 2024. The upcoming national Budget is an opportunity to fund impactful change.
Here are 3 - possibly breakthrough - initiatives
open.substack.com/pub/whatamib...
#Budget2025
#airpollution
#indiabudget
Here are 3 - possibly breakthrough - initiatives
open.substack.com/pub/whatamib...
#Budget2025
#airpollution
#indiabudget
December 31, 2024 at 3:21 AM
One big step India can take for cleaner air in 2025
#airpollution
#climatecomms
www.linkedin.com/posts/chetan...
#airpollution
#climatecomms
www.linkedin.com/posts/chetan...
December 29, 2024 at 6:05 AM
One big step India can take for cleaner air in 2025
#airpollution
#climatecomms
www.linkedin.com/posts/chetan...
#airpollution
#climatecomms
www.linkedin.com/posts/chetan...
How 'severe' #airpollution curtails normal school life for Delhi kids
December 17, 2024 at 9:42 AM
How 'severe' #airpollution curtails normal school life for Delhi kids
Incredibly dangerous #airpollution levels in Delhi👇🏾
⛔️PM2.5 at ~570 micrograms … at 9:30 in the morning.
This is around the #WasteToEnergy plant near Escorts Fortis heart hospital
(Pic from a few weeks ago)
⛔️PM2.5 at ~570 micrograms … at 9:30 in the morning.
This is around the #WasteToEnergy plant near Escorts Fortis heart hospital
(Pic from a few weeks ago)
December 17, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Incredibly dangerous #airpollution levels in Delhi👇🏾
⛔️PM2.5 at ~570 micrograms … at 9:30 in the morning.
This is around the #WasteToEnergy plant near Escorts Fortis heart hospital
(Pic from a few weeks ago)
⛔️PM2.5 at ~570 micrograms … at 9:30 in the morning.
This is around the #WasteToEnergy plant near Escorts Fortis heart hospital
(Pic from a few weeks ago)
Talk about being counterproductive 🤦🏽♂️
These government-run vacuum cleaners are supposed to be keeping Delhi’s notorious air clean, not polluting it like this!
#AirPollution
The PM 2.5 in this area (Ashram) is usually high, over 120 mgms this morning for example
These government-run vacuum cleaners are supposed to be keeping Delhi’s notorious air clean, not polluting it like this!
#AirPollution
The PM 2.5 in this area (Ashram) is usually high, over 120 mgms this morning for example
December 11, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Talk about being counterproductive 🤦🏽♂️
These government-run vacuum cleaners are supposed to be keeping Delhi’s notorious air clean, not polluting it like this!
#AirPollution
The PM 2.5 in this area (Ashram) is usually high, over 120 mgms this morning for example
These government-run vacuum cleaners are supposed to be keeping Delhi’s notorious air clean, not polluting it like this!
#AirPollution
The PM 2.5 in this area (Ashram) is usually high, over 120 mgms this morning for example
At the opening panel of the #CleanAirCollective conference in #Bengaluru
#AirPollution
With @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social @swagatadey.bsky.social #SagnikDey #SunilDahiya org by #Asar
#AirPollution
With @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social @swagatadey.bsky.social #SagnikDey #SunilDahiya org by #Asar
December 7, 2024 at 5:26 AM
At the opening panel of the #CleanAirCollective conference in #Bengaluru
#AirPollution
With @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social @swagatadey.bsky.social #SagnikDey #SunilDahiya org by #Asar
#AirPollution
With @bhargavkrishna.bsky.social @swagatadey.bsky.social #SagnikDey #SunilDahiya org by #Asar
👍🏽
Tried it, and thought it showed an error… a place with such clean air 😅
#DelhiPOV
cemac.github.io/airqualityst...
Tried it, and thought it showed an error… a place with such clean air 😅
#DelhiPOV
cemac.github.io/airqualityst...
November 29, 2024 at 2:21 AM
👍🏽
Tried it, and thought it showed an error… a place with such clean air 😅
#DelhiPOV
cemac.github.io/airqualityst...
Tried it, and thought it showed an error… a place with such clean air 😅
#DelhiPOV
cemac.github.io/airqualityst...
Also (if you’re taking requests!) maybe a jpg/snapshot option to save to an album?
November 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Also (if you’re taking requests!) maybe a jpg/snapshot option to save to an album?
CK Mishra, as then environment secretary, introduced India’s first clean air programme #NCAP in 2019.
5-6 years later it’s clear NCAP hasn’t worked, except perhaps for a couple of instances.
With Bharati Chaturvedi he lists changes NCAP needs to improve air quality.
#DelhiAirPollution
5-6 years later it’s clear NCAP hasn’t worked, except perhaps for a couple of instances.
With Bharati Chaturvedi he lists changes NCAP needs to improve air quality.
#DelhiAirPollution
November 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
CK Mishra, as then environment secretary, introduced India’s first clean air programme #NCAP in 2019.
5-6 years later it’s clear NCAP hasn’t worked, except perhaps for a couple of instances.
With Bharati Chaturvedi he lists changes NCAP needs to improve air quality.
#DelhiAirPollution
5-6 years later it’s clear NCAP hasn’t worked, except perhaps for a couple of instances.
With Bharati Chaturvedi he lists changes NCAP needs to improve air quality.
#DelhiAirPollution
Cutting trees for flyovers 🤦🏽♂️ #Delhi
Vehicular #airpollution is more than stubble today, and annually.
~7/10 people don’t have access to pvt vehs.
Yet pvt veh infra occupies most space, and govt mindspace.
Invest in more buses, pavements even BRTs, trams.
#CutMetroFares
Vehicular #airpollution is more than stubble today, and annually.
~7/10 people don’t have access to pvt vehs.
Yet pvt veh infra occupies most space, and govt mindspace.
Invest in more buses, pavements even BRTs, trams.
#CutMetroFares
November 21, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Cutting trees for flyovers 🤦🏽♂️ #Delhi
Vehicular #airpollution is more than stubble today, and annually.
~7/10 people don’t have access to pvt vehs.
Yet pvt veh infra occupies most space, and govt mindspace.
Invest in more buses, pavements even BRTs, trams.
#CutMetroFares
Vehicular #airpollution is more than stubble today, and annually.
~7/10 people don’t have access to pvt vehs.
Yet pvt veh infra occupies most space, and govt mindspace.
Invest in more buses, pavements even BRTs, trams.
#CutMetroFares
Azerbaijan continues to drill for oil at #Surakhani a few kms from #COP29 venue in #Baku.
Its business as usual for the petrostate host, and why not some may argue. But what signal BAU sends?
My report on understanding AZ’s oil & gas legacy, and the #Atashgah temple of fire
lnkd.in/gXRnG3vg
Its business as usual for the petrostate host, and why not some may argue. But what signal BAU sends?
My report on understanding AZ’s oil & gas legacy, and the #Atashgah temple of fire
lnkd.in/gXRnG3vg
November 20, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Azerbaijan continues to drill for oil at #Surakhani a few kms from #COP29 venue in #Baku.
Its business as usual for the petrostate host, and why not some may argue. But what signal BAU sends?
My report on understanding AZ’s oil & gas legacy, and the #Atashgah temple of fire
lnkd.in/gXRnG3vg
Its business as usual for the petrostate host, and why not some may argue. But what signal BAU sends?
My report on understanding AZ’s oil & gas legacy, and the #Atashgah temple of fire
lnkd.in/gXRnG3vg
Who cares about #AirPollution?
Big sign reads PM 2.5 at 426 (it shd be max 15 per WHO)
Beneath it biz as usual.
Compare to PM2.5 crossing 200 in San Francisco- see the difference in response
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...
Big sign reads PM 2.5 at 426 (it shd be max 15 per WHO)
Beneath it biz as usual.
Compare to PM2.5 crossing 200 in San Francisco- see the difference in response
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...
November 19, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Who cares about #AirPollution?
Big sign reads PM 2.5 at 426 (it shd be max 15 per WHO)
Beneath it biz as usual.
Compare to PM2.5 crossing 200 in San Francisco- see the difference in response
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...
Big sign reads PM 2.5 at 426 (it shd be max 15 per WHO)
Beneath it biz as usual.
Compare to PM2.5 crossing 200 in San Francisco- see the difference in response
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...
Costs are obvious in this
November 19, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Costs are obvious in this
What #airpollution costs ordinary folk:
My cabbie today told me he had only 3 out of a usual 10 bookings so far. Lost about ₹1000-1200 in daily earnings.
Schools were closed, and several offices wfh.
#Delhi #Gurgaon
My cabbie today told me he had only 3 out of a usual 10 bookings so far. Lost about ₹1000-1200 in daily earnings.
Schools were closed, and several offices wfh.
#Delhi #Gurgaon
November 19, 2024 at 11:18 AM
What #airpollution costs ordinary folk:
My cabbie today told me he had only 3 out of a usual 10 bookings so far. Lost about ₹1000-1200 in daily earnings.
Schools were closed, and several offices wfh.
#Delhi #Gurgaon
My cabbie today told me he had only 3 out of a usual 10 bookings so far. Lost about ₹1000-1200 in daily earnings.
Schools were closed, and several offices wfh.
#Delhi #Gurgaon
Solutions?
An “emergency brake” (@ValerieMHickey at #COP29) is available for both runaway #airpollution and global warming
- cut #SuperPollutants
.. #soot, #troposphericozone (see url 👇🏾), methane
www.cleanairfund.org/resource/act...
An “emergency brake” (@ValerieMHickey at #COP29) is available for both runaway #airpollution and global warming
- cut #SuperPollutants
.. #soot, #troposphericozone (see url 👇🏾), methane
www.cleanairfund.org/resource/act...
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Solutions?
An “emergency brake” (@ValerieMHickey at #COP29) is available for both runaway #airpollution and global warming
- cut #SuperPollutants
.. #soot, #troposphericozone (see url 👇🏾), methane
www.cleanairfund.org/resource/act...
An “emergency brake” (@ValerieMHickey at #COP29) is available for both runaway #airpollution and global warming
- cut #SuperPollutants
.. #soot, #troposphericozone (see url 👇🏾), methane
www.cleanairfund.org/resource/act...
⛔️ Delhi #airpollution: is likely to be far worse than avg usually reported. See charts 👇🏾
Avg PM 2.5 is < 300 micrograms, but some neighbourhoods (like mine) are > 500!
On this @CPCB_OFFICIAL says averaging is not scientifically sound
Avg PM 2.5 is < 300 micrograms, but some neighbourhoods (like mine) are > 500!
On this @CPCB_OFFICIAL says averaging is not scientifically sound
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
⛔️ Delhi #airpollution: is likely to be far worse than avg usually reported. See charts 👇🏾
Avg PM 2.5 is < 300 micrograms, but some neighbourhoods (like mine) are > 500!
On this @CPCB_OFFICIAL says averaging is not scientifically sound
Avg PM 2.5 is < 300 micrograms, but some neighbourhoods (like mine) are > 500!
On this @CPCB_OFFICIAL says averaging is not scientifically sound
November 14, 2024 at 10:19 AM