Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
According to 2017 Global Burden of Disease report, India has the second highest number of early deaths due to PM 2.5 in the world. New Delhi: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that action on air pollution in recent months by both Supreme Court and the Delhi government …
The government has decided to set up 20 new air quality monitoring stations this year before winter when the air quality deteriorates significantly owing to multiple reasons. Processing of tenders has already started and this process will be completed by April, said the government. The stations will monitor eight parameters …
Asthma, chornic bronchitis patients to get SMS alerts. After Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, scientists at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology will set up the System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) in Ahmedabad in March. Health alerts will also be sent via SMS to people suffering from respiratory diseases, …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Air Quality, 07/02/2017. Central Pollution Control Board monitors the ambient air quality at 680 monitoring stations located in 300 cities/towns covering 29 states and 6 union territories across the country under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP). Under NAMP, three air pollutants viz., Sulphur …
In the 46,208 square kilometre area that forms the Delhi-NCR, there are only 51 air quality monitoring stations. Monitoring of air quality, which forms the basis of the graded response action plan to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR, has been patchy for long. In the 46,208 square kilometre area that …
Worried about the capital's high level of air pollution, the Supreme Court has directed the Environment Pollution Control Authority to inspect all 962 cent res which issue pollutionunder-control certificates to vehicles in Delhi in order to ensure that they stick to the laid-down standards. The court also gave the EPCA …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 17/01/2017. One of the issues raised in the Order deals with high sulphur content in pet coke and furnace oil and their utilization in industries in the NCR thereby …
Noise and Air pollution due to bursting of fire crackers during Deepawali is well known. It is, therefore, necessary to conduct ambient noise and air monitoring during this festival to understand the level of pollution and correlate with the effectiveness of pollution abatement measures. Like every year, Central Pollution Control …
BEIJING - China will set up 126 monitoring sites nationwide to study the effect of air pollution on health. The National Health and Family Planning Commission has been researching correlations between health and smog, Ma Xiaowei, deputy head of the commission, told a press conference held on Friday. "This work …
China's courts will widen the range of offences that constitute "environmental crimes" to make it easier to take legal action against polluters, a senior judiciary official told a news briefing on Monday. The new rules could allow prosecutors to take on persistent offenders in northern China's Hebei province, which was …
After choking in haze for nearly a week, people in north China can now take a deep breath, at least until the smog returns. The heavy smog that blanketed north China in the past week moved southward from Thursday morning thanks to a cold front, according to the National Meteorological …
Scientists said on Wednesday that they have solved the mystery of how a major smog component, known as sulfate, forms during heavy pollution. The study, published in the US journal Science Advances, identified reactive nitrogen chemistry and water particles in the air as the two key elements, suggesting that reducing …
Reliable and adequate access to real time air quality data is important to enable action to curb air pollution and build the case for improving air quality of India cities.The advent of affordable and easy to deploy air quality monitors presents an opportunity to address this important data gap.The report …
Authorities in the national capital plan to have around 20 monitoring stations that will exclusively measure the levels of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM 10, the dominant pollutants in Delhi's toxic air. These stations, to be set up by the Delhi government, will differ from the existing monitoring centres …
PEC University of Technology will develop air and sound quality friendly route recommendation system for the city. The university has bagged a research project entitled 'City Probe: A city-scale pervasive sensing system for monitoring road conditions, air and sound pollution'. The project is sponsored under the ministry of human resource …
Chennai: The TN State Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will set up continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in 20 districts across the state. TNPCB sources told TOI that chief minister J Jayalalithaa had made the announcement in the assembly in the last session. The board had floated tenders for the …
The observational mobile station for air quality monitoring reached Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) here today where it was received by Director, Research, Prof Tarlok Singh Banipal. The mobile unit will assess the pollution levels in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. The monitoring of seven cities had started from Chandigarh after …
SURAT: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) will install air and water quality monitoring systems at five town planning schemes of the city by January 2017. The systems would be placed at a distance of 5 sq km from each other based on a survey report being prepared by Tata Consulting Engineers …
KOCHI: Kerala will get four new state-of-the-art real-time ambient air quality monitoring systems (AAQMS) by the end of this financial year. While Thiruvananthapuram has an AAQMS with less parameters, the first among the new set of devices will be installed on Friday at the Vyttila mobility hub in Kochi. The …
If pollution scenario in Delhi is 'dreaded', Kolkata is not far behind. By Tuesday 5pm, Kolkata emerged as the second worst polluted city in the country as far as respirable particulate matter (PM2.5) pol lution is concerned. The gap between pollution of two cities is also narrowing. At 5pm, Kolkata's …
