India, Nov. 2 -- Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar has directed all deputy commissioners to undertake mandatory field visits for a minimum of four hours every day, focusing on air pollution mitigation and enforcement of applicable pollution-control directions.

The directive, dated October 30, comes even as Delhi's winter action plan kicked in on Sunday.

The order states that the priority areas for these inspections should be road dust mitigation, waste management, identification of illegal/visibly polluting industrial activities, and pollution hotspots.

"Issues related to encroachment on public ways which lead to congestion and thus pollution. One inspection per week would mandatorily be a night weekly m...