After sustained pressure from both civil society and courts over the past few years, the Indian government launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in January 2019. Now, one year later, in January 2020, there is progress reported on increasing the number of air quality monitoring stations. Non-attainment cities are those which were found to be consistently violating the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) during the 2011-2015 period. “For the cities with population less than 500,000, funds of Rs 1 million (Rs 10 lakhs) per city has been allocated and for cities with a population of 500,000-one million, Rs 2 million (Rs. The court had even asked if it is feasible to shift to hydrogen-based fuels to check air pollution.

Source: Huffington Post January 16, 2020 09:22 UTC