Air quality: Need for public awareness, concrete steps

Nashik shows improvement during lockdown
Air quality: Need for public awareness, concrete steps

Nashik : In order to improve the air quality in Nashik and other major cities of the state, there is a need for a well defined mechanism to restore air quality and create awareness among the people.

Nashik is an emerging industrial hub and hence meassures needed to improve air quality of the city by focusing  on indudtrial effluents, waste besides controlling traffic and rising particles of dust in the air. As a result, pollution appears to be on the rise, according to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

“We will do our best to improve scientific research, create public awareness, and implement proper pollution control plans,” said Dr Sumit Sharma, Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Air quality improves in Nashik
Nashik is an industriallly developed city in Maharashtra. There are major PM10 boosting areas in Nashik through industrial transport and roads. For the last 20 years, the level of PM10 and alternatively the air quality in the atmosphere has been increasing. Compared to 2019, PM 2.5 was found to be consistently lower due to the lockdown period of 2020 and human restrictions. This shows a positive picture of improving air quality, says Dr Vibha Dhawan, TERI's Director General.

Measures suggested
* In addition to improving air quality, important measures to reduce pollution were suggested. It is mainly about strengthening the pollution control system.

* To plan the works identified in the action plan for Nashik and Pune

* To set up IT data management system for efficient air quality, to control the air quality in the identified polluting areas

* Implementation of action plan, control of PUC vehicles

* It is necessary to work in this area to monitor the solid waste and construction, e-waste and plastic waste disposal process in the city.

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