Former Xiaomi India head Manu Kumar Jain, who now serves as India CEO of Abu Dhabi–primarily based tech group G42, has shared a worrying account of his brief go to to Delhi—one which left him battling town’s deteriorating air high quality.
In a put up on X, Jain shared a photograph of himself inside a flight sporting a masks and described how the capital’s air pollution affected him inside hours. “Was in Delhi for a day for some essential conferences, and realised how off form I’m with the air air pollution right here,” he wrote.
Jain stated he started experiencing signs nearly instantly. “Inside a couple of hours my eyes had been watering, throat was burning, I saved coughing and even had a gentle headache,” he stated, including that he had forgotten his N95 masks, which worsened the affect.
The tech govt, who grew up in Meerut and studied at IIT Delhi, added that the air pollution felt “private.” “I really like this place—its power, individuals, meals, and a lot extra,” he wrote.
Jain stated he ultimately took an earlier flight out of town. “Experiences like this are a reminder that we nonetheless have a protracted option to go on air high quality,” he added.
Clarifying that he was “not blaming anybody,” Jain urged collective accountability: “All of us are to be blamed for this. I sincerely hope we are able to flip this round and make an actual change for our youngsters—to allow them to develop up respiratory cleaner air.”
His put up comes on a day when Delhi woke as much as a thick layer of smog. On Friday morning, town’s air high quality remained within the ‘very poor’ class at 373, in accordance with the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB). Information on the CPCB’s Sameer app confirmed that 13 of the 39 monitoring stations reported AQI ranges within the ‘extreme’ class, with Wazirpur recording a hazardous 442.
