Ahmedabad: Many air action plans delayed for the city were finally raised.
Ahmedabad has missed the deadline in his mission to curb air pollution that had strangled residents.
In June 2019, the state government had completed air action plans for the city.
Now, in August 2021, Municipal Corporation has invited proposals from consultants to suggest ways to reach the target.
The worst pollution episode was experienced by the city of Ahmedabad between January and February and November and December.
Track the level of pollution in your city when the meteorological phenomenon is called ‘inversion’ occurs – trapping polluted air, such as fog, close to the ground.
The action plan for controlling air pollution in Ahmedabad (APCAPA) was prepared with several institutions participation.
They include collectorate districts, city corporations, GPCB, RTO, Sipman Sipta, and other government departments.
The plan was in a draft form since June 2017 and was permitted in February 2018.
Among the deadlines specified in the APCAPA plan, misses including those who made Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar free kerosene.
The focus is to increase the number of public transport buses and ensure that all buses run on CNG.
The transportation department is entrusted with the responsibility to cancel registration of commercial vehicles that are more than 15 years and provide financial assistance to purchase commercial vehicles that run on electricity or CNG.
Another task in this plan is to ‘maintain a free hole path for free traffic flow’; The task must be completed in December 2019.
The bitter reality is that the investigation ordered by the Gujarat High Court to investigate poor roads in 2017 has not been completed.
On April 18, the UNI environment and the Ministry of Forestry have released a draft from national clean air programs.
The main goal of NCAP is “to meet the quality of the average annual ambient air quality prescribed in all locations in the country in the specified time frame.
Given the air quality in Ahmedabad, every initiative by the Union or the state government is an urgent need.