World Environment Day: Only 1 in 3 Delhi residents feel that BJP Govt has acted enough to reduce pollution, find the recording | Mint

World Environment Day: Only 1 in 3 Delhi residents believe that the chief minister of Velha Gupta -led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has so far taken activities to reduce air pollution in the national capital during the October -December compared to the previous years. Skepticism runs deep among Delhi residents and many people feel that visible action on the ground is not yet missing while coordination with neighboring states – especially if he combat the burning of stubble – rings the recording by Localcircles. The survey was a survey to know which residents of the national capital over the BJP have so far led the performance of the state government. The survey received more than 26,000 answers from 11 Delhi districts. 61 percent respondents were men, while 39 percent respondents were women. The survey also found that 8 out of ten Delhi residents want the government to prioritize efforts immediately to reduce the burning of stubble in neighboring states, execute mechanized livestock from roads and streets and enforce the coverage of construction sites. 7 out of ten residents surveyed are also in favor of maintaining garbage burning. World Environment Day The findings come before World Environment Day on June 5. Delhi Chief Minister Velha Gupta recently launched a 25-point ‘Air Pollution Mitigation Plan 2025’, titled Shuddh Hawa Sabka Adhikar-Pradushan Par Zordar Prahar. The multiple strategy is aimed at targeting all kinds of pollution of dust, vehicle push -up to landfills through a structured action plan that promises a ‘clean and healthy delhi’. Delhi among the worst polluted cities Delhi, India’s capital, is known to one of the most polluted cities in the world, which fears health experts, not only in winter, when the smog increases the levels of air pollution but also throughout the year. “Green Delhi, Healthy Delhi is not a slogan – it’s our mission,” Gupta said, announcing that key interventions such as a pilot cloud seed project are announced to cause artificial rain, which should be implemented in collaboration with IIT Kanpur. Other innovative movements include the installation of miss sprayers on electric poles over 13 pollution hotspots, and the introduction of anti-MM rifles on commercial buildings of more than 3,000 square meters. Gupta said the national capital will see its first artificial rain “soon” using cloud sowing techniques. For cloud sowing and artificial rain, a sleeve with IIT Kanpur was signed as pilot project. Since February 2025 in Delhi in Delhi, since he was appointed in February 2025, the government has taken a series of ambitious steps-from a 25-point pollution plan and a ban on older vehicles to mandatory anti-Mog rifles on buildings, cloud seed trials and a widespread dust control initiative. They also promised to clean up the Yamuna River and launched the ‘Delhi Clean Air Mission’, with the aim of halving the pollution levels by 2030.