Archive · 17 Jan 2026
Delhi intensifies pollution control efforts
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is creating a new team with people from different departments to work together and reduce pollution in the city.
This team will focus on keeping the streets clean, maintaining parks, and fixing infrastructure.
The MCD is giving this team about Rs 200 crore to help with their work.
The team will be led by an additional commissioner and will include people from departments like development, environment, municipal services, engineering, horticulture, and sanitation.
The goal is to make sure that the city is cleaner and that the money spent is used well.
The MCD is also planning to spend a lot of money on sanitation, which shows how important cleanliness is to them.
Additionally, the Delhi Government is implementing various measures to control pollution, including increasing the bus fleet, promoting electric vehicles, managing road dust, clearing landfill sites, and enhancing green cover.
MCD to form an inter-departmental group to improve coordination and reduce pollution in Delhi.
The group will be headed by the additional commissioner and include officials from various departments.
Approximately Rs 200 crore has been allocated to support the group's efforts.
Delhi Government is implementing various pollution control measures, including increasing the bus fleet, promoting electric vehicles, managing road dust, clearing landfill sites, and enhancing green cover.
The MCD's budget for 2026-27 proposes an outlay of approximately Rs 16,530.50 crore, with sanitation receiving the largest allocation of nearly Rs 4,795 crore.
- Who
- Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Government
- What
- Formation of an inter-departmental group and implementation of various pollution control measures
- When
- Ahead of the budget, expected to be constituted in the upcoming days and ongoing
- Where
- New Delhi
- Why
- To streamline planning and field operations, particularly in sanitation drives, park upkeep, and engineering works, and to reduce pollution in the city
- Allocation for pollution reduction
- Rs 200 crore
- Total budget for 2026-27
- Rs 16,530.50 crore
- Sanitation budget
- Rs 4,795 crore
- Committee head
- Additional commissioner
- Departments involved
- Development, environment, municipal services, engineering, horticulture, sanitation
- Bus fleet target
- 14,000 by March 31, 2029
- EV charging points target
- 36,000
- Congestion points identified
- 62
- Road redevelopment budget
- Rs. 6,000 crore
- Landfill clearance timeline
- Okhla by July 2026, Bhalswa by October 2026, Ghazipur by December 2027
- New saplings target
- 3.5 million in Delhi Ridge over four years
