A programme to identify pollution sources across the Capital has unearthed more than 94,000 distinct or point-sources of dust pollution between November 2021 and June 2023, with the most common being the over 30,000 potholes found in the city. The finding assumes significance as a 2018 source apportionment study by TERI revealed that dust pollution is one of the biggest sources of pollution for Delhi. Data shared by not-for-profit foundation Air Pollution Action Group (A-PAG), which is working with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and other land-owning agencies, showed that there were more than 29,000 different locations where debris was dumped in the open, followed by over 11,000 instances of broken footpaths or dividers, all of which could be contributing to dust pollution.

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