GHAZIABAD: The municipal corporation of Ghaziabad, where the air quality is one of the worst in the country, has this time received only a fourth of the funds it was sent by the Centre last year to tackle pollution. Officials said GMC got only Rs 15 crore under the 15th Finance Commission this year. In 2021, it had received Rs 60.5 crore to contain pollution.
GMC has written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the state government about the steep decline in funds. The executive committee of the corporation, however, met on Friday to decide what to do with the funds it had received.