The Indian government aims to reduce pollution by 35% in 100 cities

As part of its committed environmental pollution reduction program for 100 polluted cities, the central government has developed the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) to combat the threat through a long-term strategy. The program has a specific agenda and aims to reduce various polluting substances in cities that include Mumbai, Calcutta, Pune, Nagpur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Benares, Agra and Chandigarth. Here you can know air today in Gurgaon as an example report. All these cities will have their own specific action plan, such as that of Delhi, under the supervision of NCAP. According to this program, based on the information gathered by the Times of India last month, the environment ministry has set the goal of reducing air pollution by 35% in the next three years and by 50% in the next five years, to at least the 100 cities identified throughout India.rnThe idea of this plan, to which Greenpeace India has had access, talks about placar the contamination from several sources. They have identified as key agents in the creation of polluting air to energy, transport, and industry, urban and agricultural sectors. The note talks about putting in place an effective multi-layered institutional framework to meet the goals of reducing air pollution in all 100 cities that are supervised by the NCAP. Although the government has already notified an Exhaustive Action Plan (PAC) for Delhi, and soon the national plan for the remaining cities will be announced. However, the long-term strategy of the plan will be implemented in the capital. Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said the government has developed a separate NCAP as a long-term, limited-time national strategy to counter the growing problems of air pollution across the country in a broad manner. In response to a parliamentary question in Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber, the minister responded last Monday that the objective of the NCAP is a comprehensive management plan for the prevention, control and reduction of air pollution, in addition to increasing and evolving a network of effective environmental monitoring of air quality throughout the country. Although he did not reveal the details of the plan, he did comment that the NCAP has specific parts in development of the specific action plans for each of the 100 selected cities. To be one of the chosen cities, it must have worse air quality than the environmental standards of air quality. The list of 100 cities, identified in this way, also includes Guwahati, Vishakhapatnam, Bhilai, Surat, Bhopal, Indore, Amravati, Nashik, Kolhapur, Ludhiana, Allahabad, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Alwar among others. Greenpeace India activist Sunil Dahiya said that the idea of the NCAP is a big step in the right direction to achieve a breathable air throughout the country and they expected the CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) and the environment ministry together with other ministries and departments, present a detailed action plan soon and inform the public. Some of the key proposals of the NCAP in this program are to increase the number of monitoring stations, the dissemination of information, public participation in planning and implementation, the launch of the Air Information Center for the analysis of data and the creation of a updated national emissions repository.