Obtaining Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate in every 3 months will be mandatory for four-wheel drivers. The measure will help in checking the rising pollution of the city. Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) have been instructed to install PUC check machines at every petrol pump by December 31.
Dr Pawan Sharma, Divisional Commissioner, gives this instruction while holding a review meeting regarding pollution control at his office on Friday. Expert of issues on Environment Dr. Sharma said special efforts will be made by the district administrations to make the Indore division pollution-free. He instructed to install PUC check-up machine on petrol pumps by 31 December 2020. This work will be done by oil companies including HPCL, IOC, BPCL, Reliance Petrol and Avantika Gas. It will be compulsory for drivers to get PUC certificate in every three months. He directed RTO Jitendra Raghuvanshi to regularly check commercial vehicles. Work should be done by covering all the ongoing construction works in the city, so that there is no air pollution. Banning of coal-fired oven in hotels should be done and commercial gas connections should be given to them by the Food Department to identify and reduce air pollution.
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