Union Minister Bhupender Yadav interacted with start-ups and innovation companies to discuss practical solutions for air pollution in Delhi-NCR under the 'Saaf Hawa mein Hissedaari, Hum Sabhi ki hai Zimmedaari' campaign.
On October 17, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (EFCC), Shri Bhupender Yadav, held an interaction with start-ups and innovation companies working on air pollution mitigation solutions. The meeting focused on developing practical, scalable, and technology-driven solutions to address the air pollution challenge in Delhi-NCR.
Several key areas of air pollution management were discussed, including tamper-proof systems for Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (OCEMS), Air Pollution Control Devices (APCD) and Pollution Under Control (PUC) testing, AI-enabled identification of industrial emission violations, real-time monitoring of combustion efficiency and diesel generator emission-control devices, and technologies for detecting and controlling dust at construction and demolition sites.
The Minister emphasized the importance of city-wide air-quality monitoring, cleaner vehicles, smoother traffic management, environment-friendly solutions for scientific management of crop-residue, solid-waste, and construction & demolition waste. He also stressed the need for guidelines on parali storage involving MoAFW, CAQM, CPCB, along with development of an in-situ crop-residue storage model.
The major focus of the interaction was on using artificial intelligence, sensors, remote sensing, satellite and drone-based technologies and data analytics to move towards real-time understanding of air pollution. Solutions presented by the innovators included hyperlocal air-quality monitoring, city-wide pollution mapping, hotspot identification and forecasting, AI-based source apportionment, real-time identification of pollution sources and predictive traffic-congestion management.
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