Direction: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Choose the correct word from the given options which fits the blank appropriately.

In March 1995, the Supreme Court, while (1)_________ a plea by environmentalist and lawyer M.C. Mehta about Delhi’s polluting industries, noted that Delhi was the world’s fourth most polluted city in terms of (2)_________ of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the ambient atmosphere as per the World Health Organization’s 1989 report. The Court took note of two Polluting factors — vehicles and industries, and in 1996 ordered the closure and (3)_________ of over 1,300 highly polluting industries from Delhi’s residential areas beyond the National Capital Region (NCR) in a phased (4)_________. In 1996, Mr Mehta filed another public interest litigation (PIL) alleging that vehicular emissions were leading to air pollution and that it posed a public health hazard. In the same year, a report about Delhi’s air pollution by the Centre for Science and Environment made the apex court (5)_________ a notice to the Delhi government to submit an action plan to curb pollution.