India orders to implement measure to cut emissions in New Delhi airport

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India orders to implement measure to cut emissions in New Delhi airport

India’s environment tribunal, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), directed the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) to implement measures authorized by it in a 2017 decision. The order aims to curb noise pollution in India’s capital New Delhi.

NGT Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel and two other judicial members, Judge SP Wangdi, and Judge K Ramakrishnan, pronounced the decision in a bid to reduce noise pollution in the vicinity of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport.

Public transport used at the airport is expected to adhere to environmental norms. “All the coaches/buses and other vehicles plying at the airport should be CNG and must comply with the prescribed emission standards. Non-CNG buses/coaches or other vehicles plying at the airport should be converted to CNG,” the order reads.

The bench ordered the government to “take all mitigating measures for reducing noise pollution…expeditiously.” According to the order, the measures include “construction of sound barriers” around the airport “at the earliest.” The government has also been directed to provide for “a green belt around the boundary wall of the airport while keeping the safety and security both in mind.”

https://www.ngvjournal.com/s1-news/c1-markets/india-orders-to-implement-measure-to-reduce-emissions-in-new-delhi-airport/

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