Officials said the minister noticed cꦺonstruction work at the BJP headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg while he was returning after inspecting a construction site of the Unique Identification Authority of India.
The Delhi government on Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on construction agency Larsen & Toubro Ltd for violating the ban on construction and demolition work impos🌊ed in ༺view of worsening air quality in the city, Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Tuesday.
Officials sai🔥d the minister noticed construction work at the BJP headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg while he was returning after inspecting a construction si🔥te of the Unique Identification Authority of India.
"The workers said the work concerned the BJP's national headquarters. We are yet to confirm it. It is a complete vi🍰olation of CAQM's orders. We have imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the construction agency L&T," Rai told reporters.
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM)-- a statutory body f🌳ormed in 2021 to tackle air pollution in Delhi-NCR -- had on Saturday dir✤ected authorities to impose a ban on construction and demolition activities in Delhi-NCR, except in essential projects, and other curbs under stage three of the Graded Response Action plan (GRAP).
GRAP, firꦓst implemented in 2017, is a set of anti-air pollutiဣon measures followed in the national capital and its vicinity according to the severity of the situation.
(With PTI inputs)