PMO seeks new study on pollution source

BEFORE THE NATIONAL Green Tribunal was informed last week that action against air pollution in Delhi-NCR was based on old emissions data, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) directed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM)and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to expedite work on a new emission inventory and source-apportionment studies, it has been learnt.

- NIKHIL GHANEKAR

With dust contributing significantly to particulate pollution, it also directed preparation of a time-bound action plan with adequate funding for the redevelopment of major urban and industrial roads, with a stress on end-to-end paving and greening of road shoulders, it is learnt.

The directions were issued during a high-level task force meeting chaired by PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, on October 23.