Committees have been formed to bring pollution under control at 13 locations in Delhi

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai held an emergency meeting on the issue of rising air pollution in Delhi.

Addressing a press conference, Gopal Rai said that the Delhi government has formed a coordination committee each to identify and mitigate local sources of pollution at 13 locations in the city stifled with “very poor” air.

Narela, Bawana, Mundka, Wazirpur, Rohini, R K Puram, Okhla, Jahangirpuri, Anand Vihar, Punjabi Bagh, Mayapuri, and Dwarka Sector-8 have been identified as these 13 places.

Rai said the committees will be headed by the deputy commissioners of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

He added that DPCC engineers are also designated at all hotspots and they will submit daily reports to a ‘Pollution War Room’.

Rai also said that dust has been identified as one of the major factors at 13 hotspots for 300-plus Air Quality Index (AQI) and 80 mobile anti-smog guns have been deployed to bring the air dust down in these areas.

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