North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) prosecuted people, organisations and offices for various pollution related violations and collected Rs 25.90 lakh.
North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash on Thursday said that the action was taken in the last one month considering the deteriorating air pollution in Delhi. “The Corporation has been conducting checks and penalizing the violators to curb the air pollution,” he said.
Giving the breakup of the challans issued, he said that198 challans issued for illegal dumping of garbage and plastic waste after inspecting 4443 sites and collecting Rs 9.8 Lakh.
“Two challans amounting to Rs 0.20 lakh were issued for ‘Construction and Demolition’ (C&D) activities (illegal dumping) after inspecting 508 sites and 136 challans were issued for dust control violations at construction sites after inspecting 1253 sites and collected Rs 15.90 Lakh,” he said.
Mayor said that North Corporation has deployed 48 teams to patrol day and night to check violations in respect of biomass burning, C&D waste dumping etc.
Besides, 18 mechanical road sweepers covered 12,668 kilometers of area and water sprinklers covered 5183.65 kilometers of area during the period to suppress the dust. Some of the sensitive areas were even covered twice by sprinkling water where there was more dust. 4640.16 square meter area of road was patched by repairing potholes and 3408.1 sqm of area is proposed to be patched.
To check the polluting industries, 132 teams have been deployed which observed violations at eight places and show-cause notices were issued to 10. In all 183 prosecutions were launched for different violations in the last 23 days and two FIRs were lodged.