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Haryana pollution board shuts 10 Gurugram construction sites
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board ordered 10 construction sites in Gurugram North closed for failing to control dust and install required cameras and air-quality sensors.
The sites had received repeated warnings, and the board had issued closure notices to 225 sites in the area the previous week.
Construction projects on plots of 500 square metres or more must register on a dust-monitoring portal and install cameras and pollution sensors.
Gurugram’s air quality reached the “very poor” category, with an AQI of 319, for the first time this season on Tuesday.
A separate order will ban dust-generating construction across Gurugram from November 5 to 20.
Some projects, including railways, hospitals and water-supply works, are exempt if they follow dust-control rules.
Government and private offices must limit in-person attendance to 50%, while officials are to carry out daily inspections and violations can lead to legal action.
The Haryana State Pollution Control Board ordered 10 construction and demolition sites in Gurugram North to close over pollution-control violations.
Officials said the sites had failed to follow dust-control measures and install required cameras and air-quality sensors despite repeated warnings.
The closures are part of an enforcement drive as Gurugram’s air quality reached the “very poor” category for the first time this season.
The board had issued closure notices to 225 sites in Gurugram North the previous week.
Gurugram has more than 900 active construction and demolition sites.
- Who
- The Haryana State Pollution Control Board ordered the closures.
- What
- Ten construction and demolition sites were ordered to close for pollution-control violations.
- When
- The order was issued on Monday; officials spoke about it on Wednesday.
- Where
- Gurugram North, Haryana.
- Why
- The sites failed to follow dust-control measures and install required cameras and air-quality sensors despite repeated warnings.
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HSPCB issued notices to more than 400 construction sites in southern Gurugram after inspections found violations.
The board issued closure notices to 225 construction and demolition sites in Gurugram North.
HSPCB ordered 10 sites in Gurugram North to close.
Gurugram’s air quality reached the “very poor” category for the first time that season, with AQI at 319.
A district order prohibits dust-generating construction and demolition activities across Gurugram.
- Sites ordered closed
- 10
- Closure-notice recipients
- 225 construction and demolition sites in Gurugram North
- Active sites
- More than 900 in Gurugram
- Gurugram AQI
- 319
- Construction ban
- November 5 to 20