Even as Delhiites breathed relatively easier with air quality remaining outside the ‘severe plus’ category for the fourth day on Friday, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal chaired the second review meeting on the status of air pollution in the Capital.
Held at Raj Niwas, the meeting was attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot and Environment Minister Imran Hussain in addition to other stakeholders from the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority and experts .
“Emergency measures lifted but measures like prohibition on open burning of garbage, mechanical sweeping of roads, increased frequency of metro & ban on use of generator sets to continue & to be strictly enforced by all agencies,” the L-G later tweeted.
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He also directed that only authorised e-waste recyclers be allowed to function and that roadside greening and plantation at central verges must be expedited.