Capital City Surges With Pollution level!
The National Capital is reeling under incessant pollution. The city is under high-level meetings, and the environment minister Gopal Rai is also stressing about the pollution issue.
On Monday, Environment Minister, Gopal Rai said that the Delhi government will soon launch an action plan to cut pollution levels in summer, which will act as a precursor to its winter counterpart, in a move that will spread authorities’ efforts to limit bad air across the year, said the Minister.
According to the statement, the Environment Minister said, “Pollution levels rise across Delhi during the winter. A graph depicting the status of pollution levels through the year shows a decrease between January and March, and then an increase from September till December. To control the pollution levels from October, we formulated the winter action plan last year. Now that summers have arrived, we discussed the situation with various experts and departments and came to a conclusion that for our winter plan to be effective, a constructive summer action plan is also required,” said Rai.
Further, the Minister added, ``A follow-up meeting has been called on April 11, where we will prepare the final plan, based on suggestions by these departments,” Rai added.
On Monday, The Officials from the environment department, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), DDA, three corporations, the fire department, the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, and the revenue departments took part in the meeting.
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