Court orders clean-up plan for New Delhi
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India鈥檚 Supreme Court has given New Delhi three days to come up with a plan to clean up the air in a city ranked by the World Health Organization as the most polluted in the world.
Successive local governments in Delhi have failed to check pollution from industry and increasing traffic. This is not the first time the court has passed such an order 鈥 successive local governments have failed to build roads to ease congestion.
About 52,000 commercial vehicles, excluding taxis, enter the landlocked city each day, more than double government estimates, the Center for Science and Environment said in a report this week. Such vehicles account for about a third of the city鈥檚 pollution.
鈥淚f we are able to have a strategy to address this commercial traffic, it will help clean up the air,鈥 said Anumita Roychowdhury, an executive director at the center.
Hearing a plea filed by lawyer Harish Salve, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government, Delhi鈥檚 local government and its municipal body to come up with a solution within three days.
Vehicles older than 15 years were banned from New Delhi earlier this year, but the order has been delayed.
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