Denying fuel won’t give us clean air
From December 18 onwards, a Delhi commuter may pull into a petrol pump as usual, only to be silently refused fuel: no argument, no explanation, no warning.
From December 18 onwards, a Delhi commuter may pull into a petrol pump as usual, only to be silently refused fuel: no argument, no explanation, no warning.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Tuesday criticised the government's reliance on the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to tackle Delhi's pollution crisis, saying it's a reactive approach focusing on crisis management rather than avoidance.
The court questioned why the year-long prohibition on the manufacture, sale, and use of firecrackers was confined only to Delhi-NCR and not applied nationwide.
This figure already surpasses the total number of clean air days in the full years of 2016 (110 days), 2017 (152 days), and 2018 (159 days), and equals the 163 days in 2022.
According to an official document, to provide clean, safe, and walkable streets and clean air in the region, trainings were imparted to different stakeholders, including government officials, enforcement agencies, and engineers, offering lessons on sustainable road design and dust control measures.
Chaudhary accused the BJP by saying that the saffron party reduced the MCD wards from 272 to 250 by tampering with the ward boundaries and population ratio.
At the same time, by subsuming in a sense the powers of state governments and pollution control boards, it has accepted a substantial political risk, for it will no longer be possible to blame the problem on recalcitrant states, a common occurrence in recent years when governments in the territories in question have been led by different political parties.
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Several issues have emerged from the 15-day Clean Air Campaign launched by the Union environment ministry in the Capital that…
Delhi government and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and Climate Change jointly launched the Clean Air Campaign…
