India, Dec. 10 -- New Delhi

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has empanelled five expert institutes in Delhi to give "adequacy reports" to red-category industries in Delhi. The report will specify whether a unit's pollution control measures, including effluent treatment plants, air filters or waste management facilities, among others, are adequate for the type of industry and act as consent for the industries to operate.

In an order, dated November 24 and uploaded to its website on Tuesday, the DPCC said it has selected the Delhi Technological University (DTU), Jamia Millia Islamia, the National Institute of Technology, the Shriram Institute for Industrial Research and IIT Delhi's Centre for Rural Development and Technology f...