Bhupender Yadav

Rule Changes

Chaired the September 28 air quality planning meeting

Every winter, Delhi's residents breathe air that at times runs about 20 times above World Health Organization safety limits for fine particulate matter. On September 28, the city government announced its most sweeping advance-planned response: a six-week construction ban, a 50% work-from-home mandate for offices, and doubled parking fees.

Updated Sep 30

New Capabilities

Leading Project Cheetah oversight

India declared the Asiatic cheetah extinct in 1952—the only large predator to vanish from the country since independence. Seventy years later, the government launched Project Cheetah, flying in 20 African cheetahs from Namibia and South Africa to Kuno National Park in a first-of-its-kind intercontinental carnivore translocation. Three and a half years in, the population has grown to 38, with 27 cubs born on Indian soil.

Updated May 29