Driving Clean Air Action Under NCAP

May 27, 2025

India's National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) has helped establish the national air quality management framework in the country. For the first time, non-attainment cities have been identified, given clean air targets, and made accountable for meeting them, and a performance-linked funding strategy has been adopted for air quality management. This assessment report attempts to understand how this framework has catalysed good practices in the key sectors of pollution: vehicles, industry, solid waste and construction and demolition waste. This review is not a report card on what all cities have done, but an assessment of selected case studies from these sectors. The aim is to present a learning curve, and to understand how NCAP can be made more purposeful to drive implementation.