The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Environment Pollution Control Authority, the expert body assisting the court on pollution matters, to inspect all the 962 pollution under control (PUC) centres in the Capital and submit a report on their functioning.
The order was passed by a bench of Justices Madan B lokur and PC Pant while hearing a bunch of petitions on the deteriorating air quality of the city. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar informed the Court that 962 such centres exist in Delhi of which 174 were issued show cause for irregularities, 14 licenses got cancelled, and 75 stood suspended for violating the norms prescribed by the Centre.