16 new Ambient Air Quality Monitoring stations made operational: Outcome Budget

Sixteen of the new Ambient Air Quality Monitoring stations in the national capital have been "made operational" against the target of 20, in the current fiscal till December 2017, the city government today said in its first Outcome Budget tabled in the Assembly.

The 20 stations were inaugurated early November, with locations ranging from Maj Dhyanchand National Stadium, IARI Pusa and ITIs in Narela and Shahdara.

"16 new Ambient Air Quality Monitoring stations have been made operational against the target of 20," according to the Outcome Budget.

This was among the major critical indicators enunciated by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia while presenting it in the House during the ongoing session.

The Outcome Budget 2017-18 breaks down the performance of each major scheme and programme of the Delhi government into two kinds of indicators: Output indicators, which tell us what are the services or infrastructure that government departments are required to be provided; and Outcome indicators, which tell exactly how did the people benefit from that scheme, he said.

In the Environment Department, 12 programmes or schemes were included in the Outcome Budget, consisting of 79 output indicators and outcome indicators, out of which 64 indicators have been identified as "critical indicators".

Out of the 64 critical indicators, 72 per cent of them were said to be "on-track" and rest "off-track".

Sisodia in his speech also said Rs 30.86 crore as subsidy have been granted to 11,546 e-rickshaw owners (in 2017-18), against Rs 7.2 crore to 3,400 beneficiaries in 2016-17.

The Outcome Budget is for the current fiscal, referring till December 2017.