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MCD starts inspection to find industrial polluters; factories without clearances will be closed down

Legal actions, including closing down the factories, will be taken against the factories if they are found without necessary permissions.

TN City Desk

Updated Sep 25, 2022, 17:27 IST

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New Delhi: Ahead of winter in the national capital, the officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi are planning to intensify their inspection of the city's factories to check environmental clearances. In their bid to nab the industrial polluters, multiple teams under the factory licensing department of MCD will start verifying the validity of environmental permissions issued to factories.

One inspection team will be deployed to each of the 12 zones from October 1, the officials said. Factory units in both conforming and non-conforming industrial areas will come under scrutiny.

The squad is a part of the city's action plan to address air pollution during the coming winter. As per the action plan, a joint team of a factory inspector from the factory licensing department, a licensing inspector from respective zonal offices and staffers from DPCC has been constituted. This team will survey and monitor both conforming and non-conforming areas for the operation of any polluting units.

Legal actions, including closing down the factories, will be taken if they are found without necessary permissions, a senior civic official said. As per a 2017 Supreme Court direction, the closed-down factory units shall not be allowed to function again.

The MCD on Friday announced a series of measures to tackle winter pollution. 11 anti-smog guns have been deployed at different locations prone to dust pollution. Two of them are deployed at Bhalswa landfill, one each at Okhla and Ghazipur landfills, and one unit each at construction and demolition plants located in Rani Khera, Burari, Bakkarwala, Shastri Park and Jahangirpuri, while two other units atop the Civic Centre.

Special teams headed by deputy commissioners have been tasked with surveillance of the 13 pollution hotspots in the national capital. The identified hotspots are Narela, Bawana, Mundka, Wazirpur, Rohini, RK Puram, Okhla, Jahangirpuri, Anand Vihar, Vivek Vihar, Punjabi Bagh, Mayapuri and Dwarka.

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