Aiming to curb dust pollution, Delhi Government Friday launched ‘Anti-Dust Campaign 2.0’. This will be the second phase of the campaign, according to Government officials.
“After a successful phase one, in which a majority of the sites were found complying with norms and violators were fined around 1.3 crore, this second phase has been launched,” Said Environment Minister Gopal Rai said, “the incoming emissions from Punjab, Haryana, and UP are constantly heightening Delhi’s pollution and statistics reported an appalling 45000 instances of stubble burning in the last 10 days. “
Rai also conducted a surprise inspection of an NBCC construction site in Karkardooma while the project checked most of the regulation boxes, NBCC was fined `5 lakh for the violations found. “Starting today, the second phase of the Anti-Dust Campaign will commence - phase one of which we ran in the month of October. All our dedicated teams will work together to curb the dust pollution, majorly coming from construction sites and increasing the PM 2.5 and PM 10. All the agencies in Delhi consisting of 25 departments have been instructed to form their respective anti-dust cells.
And so, all the construction sites in Delhi will be actively visited and inspected, and reported for violations,” “the Delhi Government is running many campaigns to check pollution inside Delhi, including red light on gaadi off campaign, stubble decomposition campaign and anti open burning campaign. 550 teams have been formed under the Anti-Open Burning Campaign, which will aim to stop the open-burning in the whole of Delhi.”