Ensure real-time monitoring system used for IIT-K study is operational before winter: Delhi Environment Minister
The study was commissioned in 2021 to identify current and potential air pollutants.
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Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai. (PTI)Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday directed the Principal Secretary (environment) to ensure that the Real-Time Source Apportionment infrastructure – set up for a study when the project was being handled by IIT Kanpur — be made fully operational before winter begins in a bid to keep air pollution under check.
“… It is directed that the existing infrastructure set up for conducting the study on Real Time Source Apportionment at Deen Dayal Upadhaya Marg, New Delhi, be made fully operational by Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), well before the onset of winter so that precise data about the sources of pollution and their quantum can be collected and mitigation measures could be taken accordingly,” read the letter sent by Rai.
The study was commissioned in 2021 to identify current and potential pollutants, along with their percentage contribution to the air quality at any given time. The idea was to identify the main pollutants, how they change seasonally, factors that impact different pollutants, and actions required to tackle them. IIT Kanpur submitted its report to the government last year in September, after which the project was paused. The instruments set up for the project have been lying unused since then.
A proposal from the Environment Department for taking over the existing infrastructure, including equipment and a mobile van by DPCC, was approved on June 26. In the last review meeting of DPCC, it was learnt that there is a delay in making the super site fully functional, Rai said.
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