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Business EconomyPosted at: Jun 1 2020 4:33PM


Finance Commission holds meeting with Environment Min on air quality in urban areas

New Delhi, Jun 1 (UNI) The 15th Finance Commission headed by N K Singh and including its Members and senior officials held a meeting with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change which focused on the status of the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations for 2020-21 for administering the grants to improve Air Quality (AQ) in million-plus cities.
The XVFC Report 2020-2021 was the first time that any Commission has given attention to air quality (AQ) as a major focus and this FC had not only recommended grants for 2020-21 and also provided road map for its award period.
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar appreciated the inclusion of AQ of Delhi in the XVFC’s Report of 2020-2021 and added that there would be a basic structural change in sources of AQ in the next few years and particularly in larger cities of the country due to the new regime to emission norms which would lead to a estimated reduction of 30 to 40 per cent in vehicular emission.
The Commission is currently deliberating the recommendations to be made for the next five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26 and needs to formulate suitable provisions for continuing the grants for these cities/UAs for improving ambient air quality in a sustainable manner.
The meeting sought inputs from the Ministry on what should be considered for the next five years from 2021 to 2026 and this was elaborated by Mr Singh to the Minister and the officials.

The Commission was given the information regarding reliable data on AQ measurement, it was explained that there is a network of around 984 stations covering a wide range of cities and towns, around 779 manual stations and 205 continuous monitoring stations in around 500 cities which were set up under the National Control of Air Pollution (NACP) to meet its objectives.
Though a network of AQI monitoring stations are in place, there is a need for strengthening and expanding these along with the geographical area to cover the air-shed areas in order to make it more robust and accurate.

The Ministry has begun this work earlier as part of roll-out of NACP and various think-tanks like IITs, IIMs and NITs have been made local partners for different cities or towns. Ministry will also seek their expert guidance on what the Commission need to consider for the five years from 2021.

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