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CAQM amended its Statutory Direction No. 98, pushing the compliance deadline for revised PM emission standards (50 mg/Nm³) for Delhi-NCR industries to 1 October 2026.
Direction No. 98, notified 20 February 2026, was based on CPCB and IIT Kanpur technical studies; the extension followed industry representations citing APCD procurement/installation delays and limited laboratory capacity for compliance verification.
All other provisions of Direction No. 98 remain unchanged; the amendment is meant solely to give industries more time to install and retrofit Air Pollution Control Devices (APCDs).
Statutory body issuing binding directions on air-quality matters across Delhi-NCR; can restrict polluting activities and shut down non-compliant units
Recommended the original PM emission standard and, later, the compliance-timeline extension, in coordination with State PCBs and DPCC
Grants CAQM binding statutory powers over air-quality regulation in Delhi-NCR, including the authority to issue and amend directions such as Direction No. 98
GS Paper 3 > Environment > Air Pollution Governance
Recurring as compliance deadlines are periodically revised
Equipment installed by industries to capture/reduce particulate and gaseous emissions before release; retrofitting APCDs is the compliance step CAQM's extended deadline addresses.