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The Delhi government will prepare a summer action plan to rid the citizens of the capital from pollution. The Environment Department will implement it by making an immediate and long-term plan. A meeting will be held in this regard on April 11 at the Delhi Secretariat. In this, officers of all related departments including DPCC, DDA, Corporation, Fire Service, Dusib, Revenue will be present. Based on the suggestions of all the departments, the government will release the summer action plan. On this basis, the government will work in summer to control pollution.
On Wednesday, Environment Minister Gopal Rai told that pollution in Delhi is always present as a major challenge. After the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government, continuous work has been done to reduce pollution. As a result of all those measures, a continuous decline in the level of pollution is being registered. As a result of the Winter Action Plan implemented by the government, Delhi has registered a steady decline in the PM 10 and PM 2.5 concentrations.
According to the Economic Survey 2022-23, between 2016 and 2021, the number of days in Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) in good, satisfactory and moderate category has increased from 109 to 160. The number of days in poor and very poor category has come down from 217 to 196. Also, there has been a decline in the number of most dangerous category from 2016 to 2022, which was 26 in 2016, now it has come down to only 6 in 2022. On the lines of the Winter Action Plan, a new outline of the Summer Action Plan will now be prepared, so that people can be saved from pollution in the summer season. To control pollution, an immediate and long-term action plan will be prepared and implemented.
AAP has given away crores of rupees to corruption in the name of cleaning Yamuna: Congress
State Congress President Chaudhary Anil Kumar said on Wednesday that the Delhi government had spent crores of rupees as a gift of corruption in the name of Yamuna cleaning during its eight years of rule. Pollution in Yamuna is increasing every day. The Delhi government claims to have spent 6800 crores on cleaning the Yamuna in five years, but the polluted black water of the Yamuna is exposing the corruption of the Delhi government.
Under Kejriwal’s rule, the people of Delhi are forced to suffer the punishment of black water while they are alive. It was promised to provide tap water to every house, which proved to be a complete fraud with the people of Delhi. The Jal Board has a debt of 71000 crores, while the Jal Board was a profit-making organization during the Congress rule. Due to increase in ammonia level in Yamuna, froth is increasing.
