New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) conducted an inspection drive to assess compliance and effectiveness of corrective measures undertaken by concerned road-maintaining agencies following inspections carried out earlier on December 12.

This was done as part of its continuous monitoring and ongoing enforcement efforts under the statutory framework and provisions of the extant Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), according to an official press release issued on Thursday.

The drive focused on assessing the accumulation of visible road dust and on-ground operations of Mechanical Road Sweeping Machines (MRSMs), and on identifying instances of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) accumulatio...