Towards better and effective compliance of the statutory directions – rules – regulations issued for abatement of dust pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR), the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR & Adjoining Areas (CAQM) vide Direction No. 79 has now mandated and directed all agencies in NCR responsible or in-charge for issuance of Completion Certificate (CC)/ Occupancy Certificate (OC) not to issue CC/OC to any project against which “Closure” direction issued by CAQM is pending. Further, while considering applications for grant of CC/OC, agencies concerned have been advised to rely to the list of entities, whose resumptions orders are yet to be issued (list updated on a weekly basis) at the Commission’s official website, i.e., https://caqm.nic.in/ before considering applications for grant of CC/OC.
Instances have also come to the notice of the Commission, where proponents, in total disregard of the of directions of closure and Advisory dated 06.04.2023 issued by CAQM, were found to be continuing with the C&D activities without due corrective or preventive measures to abate dust pollution and without resumption orders being issued by the Commission.
Serious concerns of dust levels attributed to C&D activities need to be addressed at all levels by various stakeholders concerned in NCR. Thus henceforth, building layout plans/ permissions/ sanctions issued by various regulatory bodies need to strictly ensure inclusion of the provisions of directions, policy guidelines and other measures
