<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 10pt;">Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas have directed all designated agencies in the region to not issue Completion Certificate or Occupancy Certificate to any project against which ‘Closure’ direction issued by CAQM is pending. The decision has been taken</span></p>”<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202124;"> in a bid to&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #333333;">enhance effective compliance of the statutory directions, rules and regulations issued for abatement of dust pollution in the National Capital Region.</span></p>”<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />”</p>”<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202124;">In this context,&nbsp;CAQM hasalso&nbsp;advised&nbsp;Municipal bodies,&nbsp;Urban Local Bodies and allrelated departments of the NCR State Governments to ensure that all buildingplan sanctions, tender notices, contract documents and agreements in thesesectors incorporate the provisions of rules, directions, guidelines and safeguards,for compliance towards effective mitigation of dust during execution of suchprojects.&nbsp;These agencies may also consider stipulating quality benchmarksin respect of this attribute in the contracts, duly calling for appropriatepenal provisions and measures for environmental compensation in case ofnon-compliances.</span></p>”<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: justify;"><br />”</p>