In what officials are calling Haryana’s most ambitious environmental push yet, the state has collaborated with World Bank and created the ‘Haryana Clean Air Project for Sustainable Development’ with a corpus of Rs 3,600 crore to ‘significantly improve’ air quality over the next five years. The proposal includes sweeping interventions, ranging from farm-level enforcement to industrial upgrades, to combat hazardous air pollution across NCR. As many as 1,000 industries are to be incentivised to purchase new boilers, running on PNG / CNG / gaseous fuels, and 1,000 DG sets will run on hybrid / dual fuel mode / RECD. The proposal includes procurement of 500 e-buses, phasing out of diesel autos and incentivising 50,000 e-autos. A monitoring infrastructure and command & control centr

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