NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Environment on Friday said that it has released over Rs 11 crores to 18 states and Union territories under its National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) in last one year.
In a written response on the money spent on tackling the toxic air in the country, Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo said in last ten years, between 2009-2019, over Rs 118 crores have been released to 36 monitoring agencies in 29 states and six UTs and Rs 11.12 crores were spent in 2018-19 alone.
Funding details of New Delhi were missing from the data shared by the Ministry.
As per the information given by the Minister, in 2018-19, Tamil Nadu and Tripura were given maximum amount of Rs 75 lakh and Rs 59 lakh, respectively.
They were followed by Mizoram and Punjab which received Rs 46 lakh and Rs 45 lakh, respectively. (AGENCIES)
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