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National Clean Air Programme
January 12 , 2019
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- The Union Environment Ministry has recently launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).
- It aims to tackle the challenge of increasing pollution in the cities and towns.
- The important features of the programme are
- It is a 5-year action plan with a tentative target of 20-30% reduction in concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 by 2024, with 2017 as the base year.
- The plan covers 102 non-attainment cities, across 23 states and Union territories,
- These cities were identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on the basis of their ambient air quality data between 2011 and 2015.
- The plan document is not binding on the states since the document is not a legal document.
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