India, Nov. 22 -- The Delhi government has identified 62 traffic congestion hot spots across the Capital - choke points that officials said are adding a "measurable layer" to the city's pollution load - after drawing up a citywide, multi-agency decongestion blueprint, officials said on Friday.

An internal presentation, accessed by HT, shows these bottlenecks stretch across nearly every district: from the chronically clogged Bhavbhuti Marg outside New Delhi Railway Station to Madhuban Chowk in northwest Delhi, Mayur Vihar Phase III in the east, South Extension in the south, Punjabi Bagh in the west, and the dense transit corridors around Kashmere Gate and Anand Vihar.

More than half of the 62 sites see severe jams during morning and even...