Expect better air quality as the plans to set up more accurate, low-cost monitoring sensors to identifyair pollution hotspotsin the Mumbai region.
Twenty of the 40 low-cost sensors developed by four start-ups have shown an accuracy of 85-90% vis–vis regulatory grade monitors during a seven-month pilot project byMaharashtra Pollution Control Board(MPCB) in PARTNERSHIP withIIT-Kanpurand Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The study findings were presented at a webinar on Friday with participants from the ministry of Environment, forest and Climate-change”>Climate Change, ministry of housing and urban affairs, central and state pollution control boards, technical experts, media, and civil Society to discuss the way forward under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).