GURUGRAM: Haryana environment minister Rao Narbir Singh has directed pollution-control officials to submit weekly progress reports, following a review in Gurugram on 15 October. The official account also records instructions to increase board staffing in NCR districts.
The afternoon meeting at the PWD Rest House brought together Haryana State Pollution Control Board officials from Gurugram, Rewari, Nuh and Mahendragarh. Their reports will inform further directions to municipal corporations and the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority.
Singh sought closer checks on construction sites, ready-mix concrete plants and road cleaning, alongside sewage-treatment monitoring and more sampling from bulk waste generators. He asked officials to collect samples from different locations across pollution categories and levels. The weekly reports will be used to review progress and identify corrective steps. Officials were also invited to suggest improvements.
District review targets dust and waste
In a separate meeting at the Mini Secretariat the same day, Deputy Commissioner Uttam Singh reviewed departmental preparations under the Commission for Air Quality Management and GRAP. His district review directed regular construction-site inspections, mechanical road sweeping, water sprinkling and pothole repairs.
Eligible construction projects were told to register on the pollution board’s portal and install anti-smog guns according to applicable standards. Agencies must organise the collection, transport and disposal of construction debris. He also asked agencies to identify dust-affected areas and develop roadside greenery.
The DC also reviewed disposal of old waste at Bandhwari and called for landfill-fire monitoring, working firefighting equipment and prevention of open waste or biomass burning. Departments were told to segregate wet and dry waste, maintain regular collection and act against illegal dumping. Industrial-waste disposal and firecracker-related court orders were also reviewed.
Officials must keep monitoring teams active, address pollution complaints promptly and submit reports on previous decisions. Departments were also told to prepare for restrictions under successive GRAP stages and explain pollution-control measures through public-awareness activities.
Check the stage order before assuming restrictions
CAQM’s 29 September revised GRAP direction separates the standing framework from activation of its stages. Measures apply when the relevant stage is invoked through an appropriate order. The commission’s sub-committee can invoke measures in advance, based on air-quality forecasts. Restrictions under lower stages continue alongside those imposed at higher stages.
Within that framework, Stage I includes enforcement of construction-dust controls: covered storage and transport of material and debris, water sprinkling and anti-smog-gun requirements. It also bars construction and demolition activity at projects with a plot size of at least 500 square metres that lack the required portal registration or other remote-monitoring compliance. The schedule assigns enforcement responsibilities to pollution boards, local bodies and construction agencies, alongside obligations for project owners.
CAQM’s citizen charter directs readers to check its website for the applicable stage. Dalimss News has separately explained the revised vehicle provisions and earlier Gurugram construction-site webcam enforcement.
Reporting a local pollution problem
The Central Pollution Control Board’s Sameer app listing describes hourly updates to the National Air Quality Index and a facility to register and track air-pollution complaints.
Residents can use CPCB’s published Delhi-NCR complaint guide to prepare a report: give the location and pollution category, add a description and photographs, and check the automatically selected address. If it is wrong, the guide says to correct the address manually. The acknowledgement supplies a complaint ID that can be used to review action history and submitted images. Keeping that ID gives residents a record to use when following up an unresolved local problem.
The guide says Sameer complaints are automatically assigned to the appropriate nodal agency using the location and type of pollution. It lists municipal corporations, development authorities, traffic police and public construction agencies among those bodies. Agencies are expected to redress complaints within 24 hours and upload action details with documentary or visual evidence. This is the guide’s expectation, not a guaranteed outcome. CPCB’s Central Control Room monitors daily redressal status and flags delays to agencies. Complaints received through its website and email are transferred to Sameer manually for central monitoring.
For civic-service issues, the separate GMDA complaint system offers citizen registration, complaint filing, status checks and callback requests. It lists the helpline 1800 180 1817 and WhatsApp number 7840001817.
