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Among them two cities do not even have any action plan in place to tackle air pollution, an RTI reply has revealed. RAIPUR: Central Pollution Control Board has found that there was an urgent need to step up efforts to combat air pollution in three cities of Raipur Bhilai and Korba of Chhattisgarh under the national clean air programme (NCAP). A Right to Information has highlighted that three cities including Bhilai, Korba and Raipur were identified as Non-attainment cities by Central Pollution Control Board in 2016. Sunil Dahiya, senior campaigner, Greenpeace India said “It is important for a state like Chhattisgarh to take air pollution seriously due to presence of polluting industries and huge population being exposed to it. They were found not satisfactory and needed more scientific/systematic approach to come-up with time bound pollution reduction targets for real air quality improvements in respective states..