Local industries suffered a big setback when the Chairman, Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM), refused to give these any relief. The CAQM had issued directions in February that if any industry was found running on conventional fossil fuel such as — diesel, coke, HSD — in the NCR region, it would be shut down after September 30. This had raised the worries of the industrialists.
The CAQM had, directed that the operation in the industries should be carried out on cleaner fuel, including piped natural gas (PNG/CNG), LPG, biogas, propane, butane, biomass fuels such as paddy straw, rice husk, wooden blocks in the industries by September 30.
