i id to couough connunuously, andnd y mothther and father used to wake up w with me at night trtrying o hehelp me prevt t the coughihin, but nonothing realally helped. narrator: : according g to a 207 uniteded nations report, ovevera million people die prematurely inin india each year bececause f toxic particles in the air, a 50% increase since 1995. jyotsna pandit is a 17-year-old studenent at delhi's prestigious sasanskrititi school.. pandit: so finally, we went to the doctor, and he told us that i have this condition. it's an allergy which h is aggravavatedy dust and other particulate pollutants in the air. narrator: last november as pollution levels spiked to their highest in 17 years, the govevernment shut down schools across the city. panditit: there was thisis peri, this 10-0--10-day peperiod in nonovember 2016 when thehere waa great smog that covevered entire dedelhi, and the pollutatant les were so hihigh that ththey justt off chartsts. i thoughght that e i have a firsthand experience of what children go through when they're subjejected to o pollutd air, to dust partiticles, particicu