Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will on Monday inaugurate India’s first-ever smog tower at Baba Kharak Singh Marg within the Connaught Place area to assist combat rising pollution within the metropolis. The Delhi cabinet gave approval for the project in October 2020. Environment minister Gopal Rai said last week that the 20-metre-long structure, which has been founded to boost air quality in an exceedingly radius of around one kilometre, will function at full capacity after the monsoon season. The tower, built at a price of ₹20 crore tower, has been funded by the Delhi government.
“Thereafter, experts will ascertain its impact on pollution. supported the results, we’ll take a choice on installing more equipment,” he told reporters. Earlier, the minister said the development work of the smog tower was delayed because of the continued coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.
A smog tower could be a structure designed to figure as a large-scale air purifier so as to scale back pollution particles. it’s essential equipment for Delhi, which is one amongst the foremost polluted cities across the country and therefore the world and has seen a serious fall in its air quality for the past few years.
Environment minister Rai also said on Thursday the smog tower at Connaught Place are going to be able to purify 1,000 cubic metres of air every second. a politician told news organisation PTI that a two-year study are going to be undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the tower after it starts operating, adding a bearing room has also been founded at the positioning for monitoring its operations.
Meanwhile, the Centre has also built a 25-metre-tall smog tower at Anand Vihar which could become operational by the top of August, the Central Pollution electrical device (CPCB) said on Thursday.
