Yesterday, the Delhi government announced the Switch Delhi campaign to control the pollution caused by vehicles in Delhi and to promote the use of electric vehicles. To reduce air pollution, more and more people should switch to electric vehicles, the purpose of launching the Switch Delhi campaign.
The government advised large companies, malls, RWAs, market associations to promote electric vehicle usage and install charging stations in Delhi.
According to the EV policy, people who buy electric vehicles can get subsidies too. The government has floated tenders to build hundred charging stations in the city. The EV policy came in August 2020. The government has targeted 25% electric vehicle registrations by 2024.
Earlier in January, the government fixed a budget of ₹ 2,217 crores to reduce air pollution. For 2021-22, the budget for the Environment Ministry has been cut by eight percent compared to 2020-21.
This year the Climate Change Action Plan budget has been reduced by 10 crores, Project Tiger budget has been reduced by 50 crores as compared to the previous fiscal year. The project is the Tiger Conservation Program launched by the Government of India in 1973. Its project director was naturalist and conservationist Kailash Sankhala who was also the director of Delhi Zoological Park and the Chief Wildlife Warden of Rajasthan. Padamashree Kailash Sankhala died in 1994 in Jaipur.
The budget of the National Coastal Mission has been increased from 103 crores to 200. The National Coastal Mission was established to protect the environment in the coastal areas and to generate employment. The new building of the National Center for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) was inaugurated at Ana University in 2017 for this mission in Chennai.
A budget of twenty crores has been allocated for the new State Body Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to reduce pollution in the NCR and adjoining states. The CAQM Commission has the authority to control the adjoining state government and the CPCB to mitigate the pollution. 407 crore to Control of Pollution has been allocated to give financial assistance to Pollution Control Board and National Clean Air Program (NCAP) which was launched in January 2019.
The Climate Change Action Plan has been allocated 30 crores, which is 10 croresless than the previous fiscal year. 290 crores have been allocated to National Mission for Green India, out of which 235 crores have been allocated to the national afforestation program. In the last fiscal year ₹ 246 crores were allocated for the afforestation program.
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As per latest news from various online sources, an incentive fund of five crores has been proposed in the budget presentation of SDMC Standing Committee to motivate and encourage Delhi’s RWAs for waste segregation.
It is necessary to make people of Delhi aware to segregate the waste originating from the source or residential or commercial areas. SDMC has plans to undertake up to 10 Lakh development work in 100% Waste Segregation Societies and Localities. Last to last year, SDMC had made it mandatory to conduct waste segregation at the source itself. The pilot project had been initiated in RK Puram. SDMC had instructed residents of RK Puram, Andrews Ganj and Janakpuri selected wards to segregate the waste at the source.
According to the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, the waste must be collected at the source in residential and commercial areas. Kitchen waste or vegetable waste should be dumped in a green dust bin and dry waste such as plastic bottles or milk pouches in a blue dust bin. Such an initiative of the government will encourage the people of Delhi to segregate the garbage coming out of the house at home.
Every year several million tonnes of garbage waste originates from the metro cities of India, most of which goes into landfills. People who know how to separate garbage at home are able to generate income from wet waste and dry waste. Whosever generates bulk garbage in a restaurant or household will have to manage solid waste well. Failure to do so will result in penalty or user charge.
The Union Ministry for Urban Development also started the Compost Banao, Compost Apnao campaign few years ago with Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador to promote waste management and composting in urban areas under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) or Clean India Mission.
If you are aware of any other environmental initiatives from the government, please share them on the Mission Green Delhi platform and make the people around you aware to make Delhi greener and cleaner.
