Javadekar exhorts States to use cleaner fuels, build good roads

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday exhorted the States to use cleaner fuels, build good roads to ease traffic and ensure that brick kilns use zigzag technology to help the environment free of pollution.

“It is also the states’ responsibility,” Javadekar said while addressing a webinar on the first ever International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies here. He added, “We did not have to celebrate blue skies day earlier, but with

industrialisation and huge increase in population, number of vehicles, waste and dust, pollution has gone up.”

The Centre has upgraded the fuel standard to BS-VI to fight pollution, he said urging people to shift to electric vehicles.