Students in Singapore will have it good when our hazy days arrive. The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced in Parliament that all school classrooms will be equipped with air purifiers to use during smog-ridden periods.
The decision was made known in a written reply to a parliamentary question by Acting Minister for Education Ng Chee Meng today. About 25,000 air purifiers will be deployed at all primary and secondary schools by this July, as well as MOE kindergartens and Voluntary Welfare Organisation-run special education schools.
The move was made after a particularly detrimental haze season last year. Pollutant Standards Index levels often breached the unhealthy and hazardous range in 2015 as NASA predicted the forest fires in Indonesia to be worst on record.
