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Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said connected Thursday that the Delhi authorities volition instal six caller Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS) to strengthen the Capital’s aerial prime monitoring network.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) presently uses information from 39 stations crossed Delhi to cipher the city’s mean aerial quality. “By expanding our high-quality monitoring network, Delhi is gathering a stronger information nett astir the nationalist superior and moving towards cleaner aerial done evidence-based decisions,” Mr. Sirsa told reporters.
The six caller CAAQMS stations volition beryllium acceptable up astatine Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indira Gandhi National Open University, the ISRO Earth Station adjacent Malcha Mahal, Delhi Cantonment, Commonwealth Sports Complex, and Netaji Subhash University of Technology (West Campus), covering cardinal organization and residential zones crossed south, central, and south-west Delhi. They are expected to beryllium operational by January 15.
Mr. Sirsa said the stations volition diagnostic a broad meteorological strategy to measurement upwind speed, upwind direction, temperature, humidity, rainfall, and star radiation, enabling the tracking of however contamination moves and disperses crossed the city.
‘Critical upgrade’
“Transparent, real-time nationalist accusation is simply a cardinal pillar of Delhi’s aerial prime strategy, empowering citizens, experts and agencies alike to respond swiftly during high-pollution episodes,” Mr. Sirsa said. From identifying hotspots to assessing the interaction of interventions, the authorities aims to basal each large anti-pollution decisions connected robust technological evidence, helium said, adding that the authorities considers these six caller stations a “critical infrastructure upgrade”.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said connected Thursday that teams are moving relentlessly connected the crushed to power pollution, with intensified efforts focusing connected particulate control, sanitation, and discarded management. “This run of Delhi for contamination power is continuing with afloat determination,” she posted connected X.
Meanwhile, offline classes resumed crossed Delhi connected Thursday, a time aft the Commission for Air Quality Management revoked each restrictions nether Stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan aft aerial prime showed flimsy improvement.
However, Delhi’s mean aerial prime scale astatine 4.30 p.m. connected Thursday stood astatine 377, up from 327 recorded the erstwhile day.
