June 9, 2025: Analysing the unhealthy air at Doordarshan headquarters

Mandi House in Delhi is well-known even to casual visitors: it’s the headquarters of Prasar Bharati and Doordarshan, it houses the National School of Drama, and it sees hundreds of young artists gathering every day to hone their skills.

But can they breathe easy?

Not really, it would seem, as Newslaundry hosted today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI from Mandi House. The AQI was 174, which qualifies as unhealthy, so much so that stage one of the Graded Response Action Plan is now in effect.

After 100 days in power, what’s the BJP government’s response?

Watch. 

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