Delhi Pollution News Headlines

The Delhi Government has constituted a seven-member committee to formulate a long-term action plan to control dust pollution. Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has asked the officers of the environment department to prepare action plans and also to work on a long-term policy to keep environmental pollution in check. The Minister

Rai said he has also directed officials to prepare an action plan to deal with the problem of pollution in Delhi.

Air pollution caused by hazardous PM2.5 fine particulate matter led to the death of 54,000 people in Delhi last year where pollution levels remained almost six times above the prescribed WHO limits, a

"We treat raw water from Ganga, which comes through the Upper Ganga Canal at Muradnagar. Due to the recent natural calamity in the Uttarakhand, the quality worsened-, said Delhi Jal Board vice chairperson Raghav Chadha.

Pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 also remained in the air of the five immediate neighbours of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board.

A new project to identify sources of pollution in real time is scheduled to be tabled before the Delhi Cabinet soon for clearance. It received Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's approval last Tuesday.

Pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 also remained in the air of the five immediate neighbours of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

In a bid to study and combat the real-time pollution sources, the Delhi Government will work with the teams of researchers to launch 'Real-time Source Apportionment' project in Delhi, along with setting up an advanced monitoring system of real-time pollution sources. Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has directed the senior officials

At pollution hotspots in Delhi, monitoring stations in the form of a 'super site' and a 'mobile site' will be set up to study the dynamic characteristics of fine particles suspended in the air - called particulate matter (PM).

Under the campaign, an awareness will be created about the benefits of electric vehicles as well as in what way it can contribute to making Delhi clean and pollution-free.

Senior AAP leader and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak on Saturday said that a recent report by National Environment Tribunal, Central Pollution Board and IIT -Delhi depicts a loss of Rs 450 crore to Delhis environment owing to the three landfills in the national Capital. The analysis report also states that the landfills

The proposal by IIT-Kanpur was cleared by the chairman of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) this week and has been sent to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's office for approval, Delhi government officials said.