Delhi News Live Updates: Drone monitoring, anti-dust campaign feature in Capital’s Winter Action Plan to combat air pollution


Delhi AQICalm winds prevailed on Wednesday and Thursday night, but northerly winds picked up speed in the daytime. Reaching up to 8 kmph, the wind speed was favourable for improving air quality. (File)

Delhi News Live Updates (September 25): Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai Wednesday launched the city’s Winter Action Plan, that includes a range of measures such as drone monitoring, an intensified anti-dust campaign, road-sweeping machines, formation of task forces, and deployment of 200 mobile anti-smog guns to combat air pollution under the theme “Mil Kar Chale, Pradushan Se Lade”, news agency PTI reported.

The BJP’s Delhi unit will undertake a mega membership exercise on Wednesday on the birth anniversary of party ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, the party said in a statement. A review meeting of the BJP’s ongoing membership drive was held at the Talkatora stadium here on Sunday where the party’s national general secretary Vinod Tawde emphasised the importance of expanding party membership ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, slated to be held early next year.

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Delhi Chief Minister Atishi held her first meeting with ministers and heads of various departments and agencies on Tuesday and assured them of her government’s full support. Heads of around 26 departments, including principal secretaries, secretaries, commissioners and directors, attended the meeting that was also attended by ministers Gopal Rai, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Kailash Gahlot, Imran Hussain and Mukesh Ahlawat, according to a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO). The relations between the AAP dispensation and Delhi bureaucrats have been fraught.

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