Centre devises Comprehensive Action Plan to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR

The plan also requires NCR to work on diverting transit truck traffic and checking overloading

As the heap of dust is gradually enveloping the sky over the Delhi-NCR, the environment ministry has introduced a Comprehensive Action Plan (CAP) to combat air pollution in the long-run. The plan will work in collaboration with the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) which comes into effect when air quality degrades. While its draft notification of the plan was put in place by the Centre in March, the ministry released the final plan on Monday.

Keeping in mind the two major changes recommended by the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA), the plan focusses on the necessity