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A good number of India’s most polluted cities are not too keen to clean up their act, according to a list maintained by the CPCB. Of the 102 cities singled out by the Centre for their alarming pollution levels, only 73 have submitted a plan of remedial action to the CPCB. Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Nagpur and Jaipur are among the prominent cities that are yet to submit their plans. These so called ‘non-attainment cities’ were among those marked out by the CPCB and asked as part of the NCAP (National Clean Air Campaign) to implement 42 measures aimed at mitigating air pollution. These included steps such as implementing control and mitigation measures related to vehicular emissions, re-suspension of road dust and other fugitive emissions, bio-mass, municipal solid waste burning, industrial pollution, and construction and demolition activities.