Delhi still puffs along
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.