NEW DELHI: The Delhi government wrote to the Centre today requesting it to sprinkle water

from choppers or any other aircraft to settle dust, a major source of air pollution in the city.

The city government said it was ready to bear the expenses that would entail any such exercise
using its air ambience fund, a corpus created out of Rs 25 paisa cess on every litre of diesel sold
in Delhi.

However, Environment Minister Imran Hussain's letter to his Union government counterpart ..

Hussain's letter to his Union government counterpart Harsh Vardhan on the issue had no
information on how such a plan would be executed in a city as large as Delhi.

The air ambience fund, created in 2008, reportedly had around Rs 240 crore till last year, of
which about a fraction had been used in subsidising electric vehicles.

Queries to multiple officials of the the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), which
maintains the corpus, on the current size of the corpus went u ..