Epca Graded Response Action Plan

Censured by the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution Control Authority or EPCA for having done "too little" to augment the city's public transport, the Delhi government today announced that 2,000 new CNG buses will be rolled out in next one year.

An environmental authority on Tuesday said excessive encroachments, poor garbage management and wrong parking of vehicles near Delhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal were aggravating the poor air quality in one of the worst polluted regions of the capital.

As Delhi's air quality plunges ahead of Diwali, a graded response plan kicked in on Tuesday that lets authorities respond to a spike in toxic air with restrictions. As the first step, the powerful Supreme Court-appointed pollution watchdog ordered the coal-fired Badarpur power station in south Delhi to be shut and banned diesel-based power generati...

Censured by the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution Control Authority or EPCA for having done "too little" to augment the city's public transport, the Delhi government today announced that 2,000 new CNG buses will be rolled out in next one year.

An environmental authority on Tuesday said excessive encroachments, poor garbage management and wrong parking of vehicles near Delhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal were aggravating the poor air quality in one of the worst polluted regions of the capital.

As Delhi's air quality plunges ahead of Diwali, a graded response plan kicked in on Tuesday that lets authorities respond to a spike in toxic air with restrictions. As the first step, the powerful Supreme Court-appointed pollution watchdog ordered the coal-fired Badarpur power station in south Delhi to be shut and banned diesel-based power generati...