A car-free day in Delhi

New Delhi,one of the world’s most polluted cities, declared a car-free day and closed a major stretch of ­a road to private cars for a few hours on the weekend, hoping to give its citizens a ­brief breath of fresh air. That day,only public transport was allowed on the­ road from Old Delhi to the doorstep of ­Parliament. The city’s top elected official, Chief M­inister Arvind Kejriwal, and his cabinet­ colleagues led hundreds of cyclists as ­a way to encourage peop­le to use public transport. This can be considered as a first step to clean­ the city’s heavily polluted air. “We want t­o encourage people to use buses, the met­ro, rickshaws and other public transport­ so that pollution levels can be brought­ down in Delhi,” Delhi's Transport Minister Rai told reporters.