Targeted technology, smart poles expected to boost Delhi’s air pollution fight
Delhi's Environment Minister, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, has unveiled a groundbreaking target-based model to choose air pollution-control technologies and introduced digital smart poles to monitor live pollutant data. The government is set to evaluate 22 technologies, including 13 aimed at vehicular emissions and nine at reducing ambient pollution, through a rigorous testing process.
The selected technologies will be judged based on their ability to meet specific pollution-reduction targets, with more efficient solutions preferred over less effective ones. Smart poles, equipped with digital displays showing real-time air quality data, have been installed in various parts of Central Delhi, providing up-to-date information on PM2.5 and PM10 levels.
The Delhi government is keen on implementing these technologies on a larger scale if they prove successful during the trials, which are expected to conclude by September 10.
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