Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta directed the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board to map slum and JJ clusters where families still cook on chulhas or angithis.
- The government says households identified in the survey will be prioritized for LPG connections under the Ujjwala scheme once the list is prepared.
- Civic agencies including PWD, Irrigation and Flood Control, DUSIB, DSIIDC, MCD and NDMC have deployed maintenance teams across the city’s pollution hotspots.
- Active measures include water sprinkling, mechanical sweeping, mist or smog guns, and repairs to damaged roads and pavements to suppress dust.
- Officials frame the initiative as a public‑health intervention to cut indoor smoke exposure while wider anti‑pollution operations proceed on a war footing.