India, Nov. 21 -- A major chunk of the environmental cess is collected from trucks that enter Delhi every day.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi government has collected over Rs 883 crore as environmental cess over the last four years, but has spent just 1.6% of the total environmental cess collected to tackle issues of pollution in the national capital.

This was revealed by the Delhi government's Transport Department in a written reply through RTI to The Sunday Guardian. According to the information provided by the Transport Department of the Delhi government, the Delhi government collected over Rs 503 crore as environmental cess in 2017, while it collected around Rs 228 crore in 2018 and over Rs 110 crore in 2019.This year till Sept...