A green belt with dense canopy trees will be developed along the Ganga as part of the state governments measures to curb pollution level in the state capital, said minister of environment, forest and climate change (EFCC)Neeraj Kumar Singh, while releasing the report of source apportionment study for ambient particulates matter (pm) -2021 for Patna.

He said plantation on the banks of the Ganga would help in checking the windblown dust sediments reaching the state capital and adding to its pollution load.

The study was conducted by TheEnergy and Resource Institute(TERI), centre for Environment, energy and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change,Asian Development Research Institute(ADRI), Patna and Bloomberg philanthropies.

As the plantation along the Ganga was one of the suggestions made in the study, the minister said similar forestation would be made along other rivers passing through important towns of the state for checking pollution.