Delhi CM Rekha Gupta announced the formation of a high-powered expert committee to monitor, review and recommend measures to manage pollution in the Capital

The Centre and the Delhi government shored up their action against the persistent pollution crisis in the region on Wednesday, announcing a state-level monitoring panel and ordering over 2,000 industrial units to install real-time emission trackers and control systems by the end of the year.

At the central level, the Union environment ministry ordered 2,254 units – labelled as those with “high air pollution potential”, or “red” category industrial units – to bake in calibrated Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (OCEMS) and Air Pollution Control Devices (APCD) by the end of the year. Units that don’t comply may be shut, sai

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