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Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre said that a gathering would beryllium convened soon with MLAs representing each the 28 Assembly constituencies successful Bengaluru to sermon issues related to pollution.
Mr. Khandre, who met Suresh Kumar, MLA for Rajajinagar, connected Thursday, said that a gathering would soon beryllium held to guarantee that Bengaluru does not crook into “another state enclosure similar Delhi”.
According to Daily Air Quality Index (AQI) values information for January 2026, the Hebbal, Jayanagar, Mysore Road, NIMHANS, Central Silk Board, Jigani Industrial Area, RV College of Engineering, and Peenya Industrial Area stations crossed the 100 AQI people successful January. There are successful each 11 stations successful Bengaluru.
Classification
AQI ranging from 0-50 is considered bully with minimal wellness impact. The AQI ranging from 51 to 100 is considered satisfactory and the imaginable wellness impacts are insignificant breathing discomfort to delicate people.
AQI ranging betwixt 101 and 200 is considered moderate, and the imaginable wellness impacts are breathing discomfort to the radical with asthma and bosom diseases.
AQI ranging from 301-400 is considered precise poor, and the wellness impacts are respiratory unwellness connected prolonged exposure. AQI ranging from 401-500 is considered severe, and the wellness impacts impact steadfast radical and earnestly interaction those with existing diseases.
The Minister said that aft holding discussions with the Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar, a gathering volition soon beryllium convened nether his chairmanship with each elected representatives of Bengaluru and elder officials of municipality section bodies.
The Minister said that air, h2o and sound contamination are expanding successful Bengaluru, and controlling them requires practice from each the nationalist representatives.
Mr. Suresh Kumar raised the contented of particulate contamination and deteriorating aerial prime successful Bengaluru, starring to an summation successful respiratory problems among children.
In effect to this Mr. Khandre, said that aerial prime is already being monitored astatine 11 fixed locations and done 13 mobile units crossed Bengaluru.
He directed officials to contented notices to the section bodies acrophobic if the Air Quality Index (AQI) crosses 100 and instruct them to power contamination wrong a specified timeframe filing which enactment would beryllium taken arsenic per law.
Plastic use
The Minister said that single-use integrative discarded has go a menace successful Bengaluru and instructed officials to signifier consciousness squads successful coordination with section bodies and different departments to code the issue.
He directed the Environment Department to behaviour a elaborate reappraisal and taxable a study wrong 1 period connected the full fig of discarded attraction plants successful Bengaluru and crossed the State, of which however galore of them are functional, their installed capacity, the existent measurement (in MLD) of liquid discarded being treated and the magnitude of untreated h2o entering h2o bodies.
