India, June 17 -- The Delhi government will soon deploy over 600 advanced machines, including 460 water sprinkler vehicles, 70 mechanical road sweeping machines, and 70 litter pickers, to tackle the growing problem of air pollution across the city, officials said on Monday.

Chief minister Rekha Gupta made the announcement after inspecting a demonstration of the high-tech equipment outside the Delhi Secretariat, accompanied by environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa and senior officials from the environment department.

"These advanced machines mark the beginning of a new technology-driven sanitation mindset," said Gupta, adding that every assembly constituency will receive deployments under the new cleanliness and dust-control plan ap...