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the much-hailed Mashelkar committee's final report on the country's auto fuel policy was released recently. While the interim report, released in January 2002 was extremely weak and uncaring about public health objectives, the final draft is only slightly better with mere cosmetic changes.
The committee is headed by R A Mashelkar, director general of New Delhi-based Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The recent report of the committee makes a distinction between pollution hot spots (polluted cities) and the rest of the country, while recommending emission norms. The report has added four more cities in the