Claiming to improve air quality fails: Clean Air Survey 2025-26 shows backwardness in brick kilns and EV infrastructure, ranking from 28th to 30th.

The report card for the government's claims and efforts made throughout the year to control air pollution and improve air quality in the city was released on Monday, with a score of 157 out of 200, slipping by two ranks. The results and rankings of the Clean Air Survey 2025-26 were released by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on the occasion of 'National Clean Air Day 2026'. In the category of 48 major cities with a population of over 1 million,