Delhi: Environment Secy CK Mishra to hold high-level meet on air pollution on Nov 18

Secretary of  Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, CK Mishra will be holding a high-level meeting on air pollution on Monday, vember 18. This comes amidst worsening air quality (AQI) in NCR and or cities and towns in India.  meeting will be attended by Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Presh. Senior officials from Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Power and Ministry of Agriculture will also be present in meeting. 

nda of meeting 

Amongst or things, main nda of meeting will be to monitor measures that have been implied by government in country. meeting will also see discussions related to tackling several or issues caused by air pollution. As winter season is at our doorsteps,  meeting will also discuss ditional measures required to reduce severity of air pollution. 

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Attendees of meeting 

officials from Ministry of Home Affairs will also be attending meeting. y are likely to put forth measures required for more effective traffic manment, which is ar factor aggravating problem of air pollution.  meeting will also be attended by municipal commissioners of NDMC, SDMC, EDMC, etc. District Collectors of Faridab, Ghaziab, IDA, Greater ida will also participate via video conferencing. 

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Gautam Gambhir misses pollution meet 

 Parliamentary Standing Committee of Urban Development was postponed in Delhi on Saturday as  MCD, Vice-Chairman of DDA, Secretary/Joint Secretary of Environment also did t attend it. Reportedly, 25 out of 29 members did t attend meeting even as air quality deteriorated in national capital of Delhi. BJP MP Gautam Gambhir especially drew a lot of flak for escaping pollution meet and attending Test match in Indore. This has resulted in a lot of memes surfacing on social media and on Sunday missing posters have also propped up around ITO area in Delhi. poster res, "Have you seen him (Gambhir)? He was last seen eating jalebi in Indore. All of Delhi is searching for him”.  

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