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Enough is enough: Supreme Court slams bureaucracy over pollution

Directs Centre, NCR states to implement decisions taken at emergency meet

Supreme Court of India. Photo: ANI
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Supreme Court of India (Photo: ANI)

Press Trust of India New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and states to ensure implementation of the decisions taken in a meeting to curb air pollution, observing that it cannot get into the “nitty gritty” and the bureaucracy has developed a “sort of inertia" of not taking decisions which left to the courts to pass orders.

Delhi's air quality improved marginally, registering the 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) at 375 on Wednesday from 403 the day before. Authorities, however, said no major improvement is likely till Sunday.

The Commission for Air Quality Management in the NCR and Adjoining Areas, which held

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