Delhi is slip ping off-track from its goal of becoming a smoke-free city by 2010. The report card of the last three months after the announcement of the plan suggests a lack of intent on the part of the government to achieve the target. The report for the months of December, January and February says that merely 462 organisations were fined under nosmoking rules. Just 1,126 vendors selling cigarettes in prohibited areas were fined under Section (a) of the rule which has a penalty of Rs 100, while 79 vendors were fined under Section (b) of the rule with fine of Rs 200. The health department has failed to produce even a single person before a magistrate for violation of the no-smoking rule. A total of 1,596 people were fined for smok ing in public areas The health department raided 3,506 places in Delhi: 985 in December, 1,283 in January and 1, 238 in February. Even the government's proposal to enhance the penalty for smoking in public places to Rs 500 has not moved any further. The Delhi government is yet to impress upon the Central government that it must carry out the necessary amendment to the act to enhance the penalty. Delhi health minister Yoganand Shastri said a plan is being formulated to build a dedicated anti-smoking team which would maintain a surveillance of different areas. "Johns Hopkins University will begin its survey to measure nicotine levels in different parts of the city in another two weeks. The university will submit its report to the government in six months, which will lay down the detailed road map to make the city free of smoking," added Dr Shastri.