Two years after the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur submitted the report of a comprehensive study on pollution sources in the Capital, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said another study on causes of pollution would be conducted.
Referring to the IIT-Kanpur study, which was commissioned by the Delhi government in 2013, Mr. Kejriwal said the study had been done a few years ago and there was a need for a “round-the-year” investigation of the sources of pollution.
The IIT-Kanpur study, published in January 2016, studied particulate matter sources in the winter of 2013-2014 and summer 2014, finding that road dust and transport were the top contributors of PM2.5.
Pollution differed
Speaking at an event to mark the third anniversary of the Aam Aadmi Party government, the CM said that the sources of pollution differed at different times of the year.
A new study detailing the top contributors of pollution in different months would be done. In addition, he announced that machines that would help calculate the contribution of different sources of pollution would be procured.
With this, he said, the sources of pollution could be controlled as and when they spike.
He asked the Chief Secretary to finalise the proposals for the study as well as the machines within a week.
