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The last time of the Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly connected Friday saw an aggravated speech betwixt the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) implicit the aerial contamination situation successful the nationalist capital.
While Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa accused the erstwhile AAP authorities of “years of inaction”, AAP MLAs countered that Delhi’s aerial prime has deteriorated the astir nether the BJP rule.
During a two-hour treatment connected pollution, Mr. Sirsa said the authorities had shifted absorption from “publicity-driven” measures to tackling contamination astatine its source. “While the erstwhile authorities spent hundreds of crores connected odd-even and smog towers, our authorities utilized the aforesaid resources to repair roads, trim garbage mountains and code existent sources of pollution,” helium said.
‘Complete failure’
The Minister cited assessments by planetary agencies specified arsenic the World Health Organization and IQAir from 2014 to 2025, which repeatedly ranked Delhi arsenic the world’s astir polluted Capital, claiming they “exposed the implicit failure” of the AAP government. Referring to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India’s findings, Mr. Sirsa said the “odd-even strategy failed to trim pollution”, the Pollution Under Control strategy remained weak, and required air-quality monitoring stations were not installed.
He besides alleged excessive spending connected publicity astir a azygous smog tower, contempt its negligible interaction connected crushed level.
AAP MLA and erstwhile Environment Minister Gopal Rai, successful response, said the BJP was hiding its ain failures down selective criticism. “On Supreme Court directions, 2 smog towers were built, 1 by the Centre astatine Anand Vihar, and the different by the Delhi authorities astatine Connaught Place. Equal wealth was spent arsenic the tender went to the aforesaid agency,” helium said.
Questioning the government’s record, helium asked, “Why doesn’t the authorities speech astir its failed artificial rainfall experimentation contempt spending crores?”
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said the Opposition should “appreciate that adjacent though our effort astatine unreality seeding failed, we tried”.
She said important funds were being released to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)for garbage and road-cleaning efforts. “Delhi is moving from a state enclosure to a greenish Delhi,” Ms. Gupta said.
