India, Aug. 29 -- The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for calculating environmental compensation (EC) on construction and demolition sites that are violating norms, following directions from the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), officials said on Thursday.

The move comes after CAQM's June 5 and July 29 orders which asked pollution boards to assess the actual number of violation days before imposing penalties and to consider credible evidence provided by project developers for a fair calculation.

The commission had previously pushed Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to adopt a common structure for penalties, pointing out that fines varied widely for the same v...