CAQM issues Closure Directions to 16 Industrial Units in NCR over Gross Violations

• CAQM (Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR & Adjoining Areas) ordered closure of 16 industrial units in NCR for gross air-pollution violations.
• Significant as an example of statutory enforcement by a Central body created in 2021 to override fragmented state-level pollution control in the airshed.
• Connects UPSC themes: environmental governance, cooperative federalism, NCAP, GRAP, right-to-clean-air jurisprudence.