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The High Power Committee on Air and Water Pollution, set up by Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung, has asked Secretaries of various Ministries as well as noted environmentalist Sunita Narain to attend its second meeting, scheduled for May 28.The committee was set up days after World Health Organization (WHO) released a report categorising air pollution in Delhi as one of the worst in the world. The committee will submit its report on vehicular pollution and effluence levels in the Yamuna within four weeks (by mid-June 2014).