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The NTF will be headed and coordinated by the Secretary MoEFCC with nominees (not below the rank of Joint Secretaries) of Ministries from Housing and Urban Development, Road Transport, Petroleum, Power, Agriculture<\/a>-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture<\/a>, Health<\/a> and Chairman, CPCB.<\/p>\n

The mandate of the NTF will be to monitor remedial steps to improve the status of air quality in NACs consistent with the action plans already prepared and approved by the Expert Committee and directions of NGT, including the last order dated 21.08.2020 and also to monitor compliance of noise control norms.<\/p>\n

The NTF will monitor 124 cities across nation, including seven polluted cities of Odisha namely Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Angul, Talcher , Baleswar, Rourkela and Kalinganagar.<\/p>\n

The Government of India has prepared the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) proposing to reduce the pollution in next 10 years – 35% in next 3 years, 50% in next 5 years and 70-80% in next 10 years. But the NGT observed that instead of getting reduced, pollution is increasing.<\/p>\n

The data shows that as against number of NACs being 95 in the year 2017, the number has increased to 102 in the year 2018, then to 122 and now to 124. Further, data of air quality for the entire country is still not available in absence of adequate monitoring stations. Thus, the action taken so far is inadequate, calling for intervention of the NGT.The NGT pointed out that there are 4,000 legal waste dump sites (including in all NACs) in the country as per CPCB report.<\/p>\n

The NGT said 124 major cities in the country are continuously non-compliant with the prescribed standards

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