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Agriculture crop residue burning in the Indo-Gangetic Plains A study using IRS-P6 AWiFS satellite data
This study provides an account of the agriculture crop residue burning in Punjab during wheat and rice crop growing periods. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P6) Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) data during May and October 2005 have been analysed for estimating the extent of burnt areas and thereby greenhouse gas …Third report on particulate pollution reduction strategy in seven critically polluted cities
This report provides information about progress in implementing the city action plans and the specific directions sought by the HonA progress report on audit of PUC centers and networking of PUC centres in Delhi
This report presents the results of the third party auditing of the PUC centers. It recommends periodic audits every six months and corrective actions based on the findings of the third party auditing of the PUC centres. Presents the finding of the decoy operation in which frauds in a PUC …Implementation of lambda measurement in Pollution Under Control (PUC) certification programme in Delhi
This report is in continuation of Report No. 20, May 2006. The report contains an assessment of the lambda data generated in the ongoing pilot programme to propose the lambda cut point for enforcement under PUC. The report has examined the lambda specifications provided by the vehicle manufacturers. It has …Supplementary submission on the safety issues in CNG buses
This report is in addition to EPCA report no 15 on Assessment and prevention of gas leakage from CNG buses (July 2005). It takes into account the affidavit on behalf of the Transport Department GNCT of Delhi, October 2005 and Delhi Transport Corporation, October 2005. In addition, it reviews the …Air pollution tolerance index of certain plants of Coimbatore-Ooty Highways, near I.T.I Area, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Air pollution tolerance index of 27 species growing in the natural conditions adjacent to Coimbatore-Ooty highways were determined by calculating ascorbic acid, total chlorophyll, leaf extract pH and relative water content of leaf tissues.2nd final report on particulate pollution reduction strategy in seven critically polluted cities
It is clear that all cities face a common threatA special report on the status of the implementation of the particulate reduction plan: Kanpur
This report is the second in the series and is based on the visit of the EPCA members to Kanpur on June 11, 2004 to review the status of the action plan submitted to the HonFinal report on particulate pollution reduction strategy in seven critically polluted cities
On August 14, 2003, the HonInterim progress report on particulate pollution control strategy in critically polluted cities
In response to the direction issued by the HonStatus of implementation of the Honble SC order for bypassing trucks to the city of Delhi to control vehicular air polllution
This is a report on the status of the implementation of the Supreme Court orders on preventing truck traffic from entering Delhi that are not destined for loading or offloading in the city. The HonGetting the prices right: promoting environmentally acceptable fuels through fiscal measures
The HonReport on standards for CNG vehicles and refilling stations
The current emission standards and safety measures for conversion of in-use vehicles to CNG are extremely lax. The emission standards only require the vehicles to meet the equivalent standards for diesel and petrol vehicles in force in the year of manufacture. This means that a pre-1996 vehicle after being converted …Proposal for emission controls on petrol two-stroke engine driven two and three wheelers and other issue
The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, has made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the …Green justice: up in smoke?
FROM the look of things, the age of environmental justice has arrived: the courts everywhere in the country, especially in Gujarat and Delhi, are issuing orders for the closure of polluting units right, left and centre. The NGOs are exuberant. The workers are worried about losing their jobs. State governments …3 day Training Programme on Policy, Planning and Design for Sustainable Mobility
Indian cities were originally designed as compact entities to reduce travel trip length. But with rapid urbanization and motorization, our sprawling cities are becoming victims of killer pollution, congestion, and a crippling oil guzzling, car dependent infrastructure that endangers our quality of life. While sprawling cities, flyovers and signal- free …International Conference on "Development, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Issues and Challenges", 03-05 October 2014, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India
The Climate Change-Biodiversity report of the IPPC (April, 2002) highlights that changing land use and land cover, soil and water/air pollution, diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and urban systems, habitat fragmentation, selective exploitation of species, the introduction of non-active species and stratospheric ozone depletion are the consequences of …International Conference on "Development, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Issues and Challenges", 03-05-October 2014, Chamba
The Climate Change-Biodiversity report of the IPPC (April, 2002) highlights that changing land use and land cover, soil and water/air pollution, diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and urban systems, habitat fragmentation, selective exploitation of species, the introduction of non-active species and stratospheric ozone depletion are the consequences of …