Enforcement of graded response action plan on pollution hotspots in the national capital can help achieve clean air
Delhi has, in the last 10 years, made visible strides in ameliorating its air quality.
Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain and Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director and head of the air pollution and clean transportation programme at CSE discuss how this was achieved and how to bring it down even further.
CSE conducted a granular analysis of the air quality data provided by the Central Pollution Control Board for the last 10 years.
Delhi has managed to bend the pollution curb “with over all particulate pollution down by 25 per cent”, Roychowdhury said. This has happened because of transition to clean fuel in the capital.
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