In view of the rising pollution at a hazardous level, the Ghaziabad District Magistrate (DM) has ordered to close the Government and private schools for two days.
Apart from this, sprinkling water on roads in addition to stopping construction activities in the city for a week and penalising people for disposing of garbage in open are some of the other measures which have been taken. The DM has, further, recommended to close 15 polluting industrial units and imposed penalties on five construction companies for violating orders.
District Information Officer Raj Bahadur Singh said the DM Ritu Maheswari had asked the GDA, Municipal Corporation, Jal Nigam, Housing Corporation, PWD and NHAI to take extra ordinary steps to curb the pollution in their respective areas.
“We have immediately complied with the orders of the DM who is also the Vice Chairperson of the authority with immediate effect,” said GDA secretary Ravendra Madhukar Godbole
We are complying with the orders to stop construction activities at sensitive locations also added secretary.
For violation of orders a penalty of Rs. 6.5 lakh were imposed on 14 builders including SVP builders, Panchsheel, NKS, Nipun, Hari Builders, Real Anchors, Hari Build well as others added the secretary.