Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta led a large Ring Road cleaning and water‑sprinkling drive at Khyber Pass Chowk as a citywide dust‑reduction campaign got underway.
- After strict directives from the CM, DMRC intensified site drives, inspected corridors such as Azadpur–Ashok Vihar, reported temporary control of about 19 km of roads and deployed more than 100 anti‑smog guns.
- The government signed a three‑year PWD–GMR MoU worth roughly ₹6 crore to maintain the Azad Market–Inderlok stretch, with additional CSR assignments to firms including IOCL, IGL, Vedanta, Godrej, Dalmia and DLF for other corridors and flyovers.
- Enforcement escalated with 750 construction‑site inspections, 556 notices, penalties totaling around ₹7 crore and 48 closures, alongside a sharp rise to nearly 8 lakh PUC challans compared with last year.
- Environment officials announced plans to sign an MoU with IIT Delhi and IITM Pune for a new emissions source study, plus expanded field audits and surveys to update hotspot mapping and verify dust‑control on roads.