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It comprised membes of the Central Pollution Control Board, the West Bengal State Pollution Control Board and Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute. (File)The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday ordered the state government to ban the use of hot mix plants and burning fossil fuel for road construction in Kolkata and Howrah to curtail air pollution. The bans, however, do not feature as a recommendation by an expert committees that had been formed to look into the question of dealing with air pollution. The orders came in the hearing of a 2005 case in which the petitioner Subhash Dutta claimed increase in nighttime air pollution in Kolkata. It directed the urban local bodies to adopt more environment-friendly methods for the purpose..