With the air quality index in the city dipping to ‘very poor’, the Central Pollution Control Board has directed civic authorities to take focussed action in pollution hotspots in Delhi-NCR, reveal records of a CPCB meeting on Tuesday.
The organisation said it expects air to remain in the ‘very poor’ category for the next four days and inspection and pollution-control measures be strengthened in Loni-Bhopura, which has seen “repeated complaints”. The hotspots are: Anand Vihar, Bawana, CRRI Mathura Road, DTU, Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, Dwarka-Sector 8, Jahangirpuri, Mundka, NSIT Dwarka, Narela, Okhla Phase-2, RK Puram, Rohini, Shadipur, Wazirpur.
In NCR areas, six hotspots have been identified — Sector 16A in Faridabad, Vikas Sadan in Gurugram, Vasundhara in Ghaziabad, Knowledge Park-III in Greater Noida, Sector-125 in Noida and RIICO Industrial Area-III in Bhiwadi.
The CPCB meeting on Tuesday included experts from the India Meteorological Department as well as public-health specialists.
