Top 7 steps CM Arvind Kejriwal eyeing to curb Delhi pollution apart from odd, even formula
A day after Delhi High Court compared the capital city to a 'gas chamber', Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi Government on Friday listed a series of measures to curb air pollution levels. While only restriction on plying of private vehicles bearing odd and even registration numbers to alternate days from January 1 made it to the headlines (popularly referred as #OddEvenFormula), others equally important measures didn't come to the notice. In Arvind Kejriwal speech were listed 7 other steps the AAP government is looking at implementing to cut down air pollution in the city by half. Here is a list of those measures:
1) To curb pollution in Delhi, AAP government has decided to shut down the Badarpur Thermal power station and to approach the National Green Tribunal to close the Dadri power plant which falls in Uttar Pradesh. (Express photo by Oinam Anand)
2) To carry out a massive plantation drive along all arterial roads across the city to curb spread of dust and ensure vacuum cleaning of roads by the Public Works Department from April 1. (Express photo by
Amit Mehra)
3) To allow movement of trucks only after 11 PM as they slow down overall vehicular movement which was pointed out to be a major contributing factor to pollution from vehicular emission. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal
4) To control pollution in Delhi, AAP government has decided to make it mandatory for vehicles to have Euro VI standards for vehicular emission from 2017, two years before the Centre's scheduled introduction of the same. (Express photo by Sumit Malhotra)
5) Public transport to be significantly augmented to take the load of increasing passengers due to the odd-even number restrictions. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)
6) The recently launched Swachh Delhi app would be modified so that people can send images of biomass burning or other sources of pollution to the concerned authorities. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey)
7) To shut MCD parking lots on the roads that are responsible for slowing down traffic movement. (Express photo by Gajendra yadav)