NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME (NCAP)

About:

• Objective: NCAP is a time bound national level strategy for pan India implementation to tackle the increasing air pollution problem across the country in a comprehensive manner.
  
  
• Implementation Period: NCAP is a mid-term, five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year.
  
  
• Target: The government has set a tentative national level target of 20%–30% reduction of PM 2.5 and PM 10concentration by 2024 taking 2017 as the base year for the comparison of concentration.
  
  
• Strategy:
  • Collaborative approach involving relevant Central Ministries, State Governments, local bodies and other Stakeholders with focus on all sources of pollution forms the crux of the Programme.
    
    
  • It involves comprehensive mitigation actions for abatement of air pollution, augmenting the air quality monitoring network across the country and strengthening the awareness and capacity building activities.
    
    
  
  
  
• Coverage:
  • 102 non-attainment cities have been identified for implementing mitigation actions under NCAP.
    
    
  • There will be use of the Smart Cities program to launch the NCAP in the 43 smart cities falling in the list of the 102 non-attainment cities.
    
    
  
  
  
• Institutional mechanism
  • Apex Committee at the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change in the Centre and at Chief Secretary Level in the States are to be constituted.
    
    
  • In addition, various working groups and units will be constituted under the Municipal Commissioner and District Magistrate.
    
    
  • The program will also partner with multilateral and bilateral international organizations, and philanthropic foundations and leading technical institutions to achieve its outcomes.