TNPSC Thervupettagam

State Planning Commission report on LEZ

September 19 , 2024 8 days 153 0
  • Tamil Nadu’s State Planning Commission has come out with a report on ‘Low Emission Zoning – A Toolkit for Chennai’.
  • It is collaborated with the British Deputy High Commission, Chennai, through the UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT) program.
  • A LEZ is an area in which use of more polluting vehicles are restricted based on vehicle emission standards and levying charges on non-compliant vehicles.
  • The primary objective of an LEZ should be to bring down ambient pollution concentrations to improve public health and deliver compliance with legal limit values.
  • Chennai is India’s fourth largest city, with a population of around 9 million.
  • The city is expanding rapidly, with some of the peripheral areas seeing annual population increases of around 50%.

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