India, Oct. 5 -- Commuters travelling along Delhi's Ring Road could soon see stricter cleaning enforcement, after the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) found 17 violations of high visible road dust and construction waste accumulation during a surprise inspection drive covering 35 kilometres of the Inner and Outer Ring Road.

The inspection, conducted on October 3, 2026, under "Operation Clean Air," aimed the assess visible road dust and check whether road-cleaning and sweeping operations were being carried out effectively along the Ring Road, one of the city's busiest and most heavily used corridors.

For the drive, CAQM deployed four Flying Squad teams to inspect roads falling under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Departm...