New Delhi Dec 26 PTI Delhi will publish its first State of Environment Report next year that will have data on all key areas including sewage water quality waste collection and segregation etc put together succinctlyThe city government is also likely to give funds to municipal corporations for the first time for the management of road dust and potholes and to prevent open waste burningThe multiplicity of departments in Delhi impedes problem resolution Had it been Nagpur or Mumbai or Chennai it would have been easier So the objective is to fix accountability of the concerned departments an official saidThe Environment Department is in the process of floating a tender to hire an agency to collect data from all the concerned departments including municipal corporations Delhi Jal Board Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board Irrigation and Flood Control Department and Forest and Wildlife and prepare the reportMunicipal corporations will provide data related to waste generation segregation battery operated vehicles etc the Delhi Jal Board will furnish data related to water quality sewage treatment sewer network etc and the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board will give information about jhuggi-jhopri colonies the official saidThe compilation work should begin in February and will be completed by the end of March This will be the first time we will be preparing such a holistic report he saidThe Environment Department will also give some of the funds received from the Centre under the National Clean Air Programme NCAP to MCDs for the management of road dust and potholes and to prevent open waste burningThis is also the first time we will give funds to MCDs that have been complaining about the shortage of resources to check pollution It will help fix accountability the official saidThe Union Environment Ministry has released Rs 11 crore to Delhi under NCAP to address critical gaps in air pollution management according to officialsThis is the first time Delhi has got funds under NCAP a national-level strategy for a 20 per cent to 30 per cent reduction in PM25 and PM10 concentration by 2024 with 2017 as the base year for comparisonDelhi has been allocated Rs 1874 crore under NCAP The first instalment of Rs 11 crore was released earlier this month according to a senior official in the Union Environment MinistryThe rest of the amount will be released after Delhi submits utilisation certificates for up to 60 per cent of the first instalment he said PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Dec 16 PTI The Union Environment Ministry has released Rs 11 crore to Delhiunder the National Clean Air Programme NCAP to cater to critical gaps in air pollution management officials said FridayThis is the first time Delhi has got funds under NCAP a national-level strategy for a 20 per cent to 30 per cent reduction in PM25 and PM10 concentration by 2024 with 2017 as the base year for comparisonDelhi has been allocated Rs 1874 crore under NCAPThis is the first time it received funds under the programme since it started in 2019The first installmentof Rs 11 crore was released a few days ago an official said The rest of the amount will be released after Delhi submits utilization certificates for up to 60 percent of the first installment he said The NCAP fund will be utilised to meet critical gaps -- wherever there is any inadequacy of funds from other sources The rest of the funding is to be mobilised through convergence of schemesFunds for bigger projects such as management of construction and demolition waste are allocated under the Swachh Bharat Urban programme and other schemes of the central government NCAP covers 132 non-attainment cities which do not meet the prescribed national ambient air quality standards These cities have been identified based on the ambient air quality data obtained during the 2011-2015 period under the National Air Monitoring ProgrammeThe acceptable annual standard for PM 10 and PM25 is 60 micrograms per cubic metre and 40 micrograms per cubic metre respectivelyIn 2017 Delhis annual PM10 average stood at 240 micrograms per cubic metre The targeted PM 10 concentration by 2024 is 168 micrograms per cubic metreOfficials in the Union Environment Ministry said the national capital did not get any funds under NCAP for two years because it had other resources available -- a green cess levied on diesel vehicles above 2000 cc which is deposited with the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB and a pollution tax on commercial vehicles entering Delhi This time fund availability under NCAP has improvedFifty cities are already getting a good amount Rs 4400 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 2217 crore in 2021-22 for pollution management from the Finance Commission Therefore the availability of funds for the remaining 82 cities under NCAP has improved So we decided to give some funds to Delhi too an official had said earlier PTI GVS TIR TIR