Delhi has intensified inspections at construction and infrastructure sites ahead of winter after the Delhi Pollution Control Committee issued show-cause notices to agencies over deficiencies in dust-control measures. The inspections cover projects linked to the Delhi Jal Board, the National Highways Authority of India, Delhi Metro and NBCC.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said pollution-control rules would be enforced uniformly across government and private projects. She said no government department, construction agency, contractor or private company was above the law, and identified clean air for Delhi residents as the government’s priority.
The inspection drive has focused on whether construction and infrastructure projects are meeting the measures required to control dust. The DPCC found deficiencies at sewer-laying work being carried out by the Delhi Jal Board in Patparganj Industrial Area, according to the report.
Checks were also conducted along a 17.2-km NHAI corridor on NH-9 and Rohtak Road between Punjabi Bagh and Tikri Kalan. The inspected stretches included areas near Mundka Metro Station and the Mundka Industrial Area, placing road and transport infrastructure works within the scope of the enforcement exercise.
Sites associated with the Delhi Metro and the Central Vista project near Central Secretariat Metro Station were also inspected. NBCC projects under the General Pool Residential Accommodation programme in Sarojini Nagar and Netaji Nagar were among the other locations covered.
The action comes before winter, when Delhi’s air-quality concerns become more acute and construction activity faces closer scrutiny. Dust from earthwork, road construction, material handling and unprotected project areas is a recurring compliance concern, making site-level enforcement an important part of the city’s pollution-control response. The report, however, does not specify the individual violations recorded at each location or the corrective deadlines attached to the show-cause notices.
The inspections also put public agencies and private contractors under the same regulatory expectation. The projects named in the exercise span sewer infrastructure, highways, metro-related works, government redevelopment and residential construction, showing the breadth of construction activity being reviewed by the pollution-control authorities.
The next stage will depend on the responses submitted by the agencies that received the notices and on further inspections by the DPCC. The Delhi government has stated that enforcement will continue without exemptions for government departments, construction agencies, contractors or private companies.
