India, Feb. 15 -- The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on Delhi's air pollution exposed severe lapses in the city's efforts to mitigate vehicular pollution, highlighting a lack of data on the number of vehicles and their emissions, delays in public transport expansion plans and improper placement of air quality monitors, according to officials familiar with the findings of the agency.

To be sure, the report - Prevention and Mitigation of Vehicular Air Pollution in Delhi, prepared in 2022 - is one of the 14 such filings prepared by CAG between 2017 and 2024 that were to be tabled in the Delhi assembly, but were not done so.

The report on pollution also highlighted systemic flaws in the city's Pollution Under Control (PUC) c...