LUCKNOW: A day after UP's environment minister met with the Union minister and officials to curb the growing air pollution, UP chief secretary Rahul Bhatnagar issued directions to senior officials to take "effective measures regularly" to control air pollution in different cities in UP. Asking the government departments to ensure stringent action through a drive against polluting vehicles, Bhatnagar has banned the burning of garbage inside city limits. Bhatnagar said pollution control equipment should be installed in air polluting industries and regular inspection should be conducted, so that environment is not polluted. He directed for effective enforcement of ban on use of polythene and asked to take strict action against persons violating ban on polythene use. Principal secretary, transport also said the government will run mobile inspection vans to check and prevent vehicle that generate air pollution.Saying that air pollution in UP was considerably less than Delhi and NCR , chief environment officer of UP Pollution Control Board, S R Sachan said manual air pollution monitoring centres have been set up in Lucknow at seven places along with one automatic air pollution monitoring centre.

Source: Times of India November 08, 2016 17:04 UTC