To control pollution in this winter season, Delhi Government on Thursday launched a month-long intensive anti-dust campaign at construction sites.
Environment Minister Gopal Rai announced the campaign and said, "Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the Winter Action Plan. In the first phase of the plan, we operationalised a war room in the Delhi Secretariat on October 3.
The anti-dust campaign will be run in Delhi till November 6. It is compulsory for all construction sites to follow all 14 anti-dust norms and strict action to be taken against violators."
According to Environment Minister Gopal Rai, these teams can impose fines ranging from ₹10,000 up to ₹5 lakh on violation of dust rules as per National Green Tribunal (NGT) guidelines.
In order to stop dust pollution, earlier it was mandatory to install an anti-smog gun at a construction site spanning over 20,000 square metres. This provision has now been modified and now, each site spanning over 5,000sq metres will have to put in place an anti-smog gun.
A construction site with an area between 5,000 square metres and 10,000 square metres needs to have one anti-smog gun, those between 10,000 square metres and 15,000 square metres are required to have two anti-smog guns and construction sites spanning between 15,000 square metres and 20,000 square metres need to have three anti-smog guns. Construction sites with an area greater than 20,000 square metres are required to have four anti-smog guns.
