how municipal corporation work for pollution free environment
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Air pollution is responsible for many health problems in urban areas. A report published in the medical journal, ‘Lancet’ says that the pollutant PM2.5 (particulate matter with diameter less than 2.5 micrometer) alone killed five lakh Indians in the year 2015. The PM level had climbed to 778 in Delhi-NCR and 824 in Delhi this summer, demonstrating that severe air pollution is a "summer-time problem" too. The World Health Organization has stated that half of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in India. It reports that the air quality of places like Gwalior, Allahabad or Patna is worse than Delhi’s.
Of late, policy measures in prevention and control of air pollution in Delhi have undergone many changes. Concerning policy measures, most of the time responsibility of controlling pollution in Delhi is tilted towards the Government of NCT of Delhi with no defined role for local bodies which actually are implementers on the ground for prevention and control of Air pollution in Delhi. The same approach of placing little onus on local bodies has been continued in the recently launched National Clean Air Programme and Draft Implementation Plan for Delhi – NCR for improving the air quality. The programme is really appreciable in terms of providing framework, concerted efforts for air quality data collection across various cities, increasing the number of air quality monitoring stations and triggering actions on the basis of transparent data analytics systems based Air Quality Index. However, the programme has over looked the role of Municipal Corporations in Delhi in its proposed institutional framework while assigning greater responsibility to the State Governmentxplanation: