Rahul calls for plan to combat air pollution

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday urged the government to formulate a comprehensive, city-specific strategy to tackle air pollution, calling it a “non-ideological” issue that needs discussion to formulate a “united” national action plan.

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Calling for full cooperation between the Treasury and Opposition benches over the issue, Rahul, while speaking in the Lok Sabha, pressed for a structured Parliamentary discussion followed by a long-term national plan.

Spelling out his suggestion, he added, “it would be good if we have a detailed discussion, and then the prime minister puts in place a plan for each city - a methodical, systematic plan on how within the next five or ten years... maybe, we cannot resolve the problem, but how we are going to impact the problem and make life for our people easier.”