The Uttar Pradesh authorities on Monday submitted an affidavit earlier than the Supreme Court docket, mentioning the measures it has taken to curb air air pollution within the state, significantly within the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR).
“The affidavit has been submitted with the Supreme Court docket. We’ve got labored in each doable sector to curb air air pollution, together with the measures taken for autos going to NCR,” stated minister of state (unbiased cost) for setting, forest and local weather change Arun Saxena on Monday.
Within the affidavit, the state authorities gave particulars of the motion taken and coverage implementation to curb air air pollution in varied sectors together with agriculture, transport, actual property and business. Tremendous of over ₹1.5 crore has been slapped on totally different industrial models in NCR for violating the graded response motion plan (GRAP) stage three by the Uttar Pradesh Air pollution Management Board prior to now three days, it stated.
In 2023, a complete 3058 over-aged autos had been impounded within the NCR this yr. Throughout the identical interval, ₹34.28 lakh was collected as advantageous from 1231 autos that had been discovered plying in NCR after finishing 10 years (diesel) and 15 years (petrol) class. As many as 6039 autos had been scrapped this yr in eight districts of NCR (Bagpat, Bulandshahr, Gautam Budha Nagar, Gaziabad, Hapur, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli).
Each day, a complete 588.79 km highway size is roofed by 48 mechanical highway sweeping machines in NCR and 266 water sprinkling machines cowl a highway stretch of 766.5 km within the eight districts of the area. The UPPCB shifted 2188 industrial models to accredited gas from amongst 2273 fuel-based models. Remaining 85 are both closed by motion or self-closed, in keeping with the UPPCB.
The state has 171 e-charging stations and 20 extra are proposed.