Overview
- Delhi’s environment minister convened a high-level roundtable with NGOs, researchers, journalists and officials to refine immediate citywide pollution controls.
- The capital announced intensified field operations, including dust suppression on 40–60 ft arterial roads, more mechanical sweepers and litter pickers, anti-smog guns, stricter C&D enforcement, and a crackdown on open waste and biomass burning.
- Authorities said AI-enabled real-time surveillance, hotspot mapping, traffic inputs and continuous emissions checks will be integrated into enforcement and policy decisions.
- At a Union environment ministry review, Haryana presented an intensified plan and reported nearly 50% fewer stubble-burning incidents than last year in NCR-linked districts.
- Haryana detailed actions including removing diesel autos from service, mechanical sweeping in Gurugram and Faridabad, brick kilns beyond NCR shifting to paddy-straw fuels, IT-based farm-fire monitoring, urban electric buses, and a World Bank-supported Clean Air Programme for stronger IGP coordination.