The Noida regional office of the Uttar Pradesh Pollution panel (UPPCB) has approached IIT-Delhi to assess the sources of pollution, a primary for the town, during a bid to deploy effective control measures before October when the air quality starts deteriorating within the urban center Region.
Despite town figuring among the foremost polluted within the country in several surveys, there’s yet to be a survey to assess the source of emissions and therefore the quite aerosols so produced. Noida, like other cities within the NCR, suffers severe levels of pollution from October through February, because of several artificial and meteorological factors.
Officials from UPPCB said they’ll soon start field inspections and check hot spots [where pollution levels are generally high] for better remedial actions.
IIT-Delhi is that the knowledge partner and institute of repute (IOR) for Noida and Ghaziabad. In March, the cities and IIT-Delhi signed a memorandum of agreement to the present effect wherein the institute will help them with technical support, identifying sources and methods to tackle pollution.
UPPCB Noida regional officer Praveen Kumar said the board will soon sign a contract with the IIT to conduct the survey.
“The conditions of the contract are being formalised for the study that may measure emissions, inventory development and source apportionment for Noida. at that time we’ll be in a very position to assess the particular sources in order that we will take remedial actions accordingly. we’ll also keep a watch on the violations associated with the development and demolition waste,” said Kumar.
According to the IIT Delhi, centre for atmospheric sciences, prof Sagnik Dey, while there can be many sources of emissions in both Noida and Ghaziabad, a giant chunk of pollution comes from Delhi.
“Both Noida and Ghaziabad are on downwind of Delhi, so emissions from there find yourself within the two cities, a bit like Delhi receives emissions from Haryana and Punjab. There will surely be other sources of pollution moreover in Noida, which might be almost similar as those in Delhi. So far, we’ve little or no knowledge about Noida in terms of sources, so this study would be a primary. In fact, no other NCR city, aside from Delhi, has had such a survey done,” said Dey .
The study Dey is pertaining to is one that was done by IIT Kanpur in 2015, which found that in winter vehicles contributed nearly 25% of the PM2.5 (particulate matter of size 2.5 microns or less that may enter bloodstream and penetrate organs resulting in higher risk of cancer and other diseases) and biomass burning contributed 26%.
Noida is among 132 cities within the country selected for the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) — a long-term and time-bound national level strategy to tackle pollution across the country in an exceedingly comprehensive manner. it’s targets to realize 20% to 30% reduction in particulate concentration by 2024 with 2017 because the base year.
According to a 2020 report by IQAir, a US and Swiss-based air quality solution company, which has assessed a complete of 98 countries and over 600 cities, Noida and Greater Noida were the fifth and ninth most polluted cities, respectively, supported the annual average concentration of PM2.5.
