The Commission for Air Quality and Management (CAQM) on Thursday said gross violations have been reported in industrial units, construction and demolition project sites causing air pollution in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR).
As per the latest findings of 40 flying squads of the commission, 38, 48, 104 and 38 cases of environmental norms were reported in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan respectively.
A closure issue notice was also sent to these units causing air pollution in the Capital region and adjoining areas.
Sharing more details on it, an official from the CAQM said, the Enforcement Task Force (ETF) of the Commission reviewed the filed level action and inspected reports of the flying squads on a daily basis. “General compliance levels reported to be satisfactory and improving over the days. However, serious violations still being reported across sectors; majorly in Industrial units, Construction & Demolition (C& D) project sites, use of Diesel Generator Sets in industrial installation/ commercial complexes and residential set ups,” it said.
According to the CAQM database, 1,215 cumulative inspections have been carried out till December 7th.
“Gross violations of Directions/ Orders of the Commission and non-adherence of prescribed norms has been reported from 228 numbers of units / sites across various sectors. Of these, closures have been identified for 128 No. of Industries, 58 C&D Project sites and 42 Commercial / residential complexes operating on DG Sets,” it said.
The flying squads have further verified physical closure of operations and 111 No. of such units have so far been physically closed down, till further orders from the Commission.