- Title: Delhi installs first smog tower to battle air pollution
- Date: 23rd August 2021
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (AUGUST 23, 2021) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) DELHI CHIEF, ARVIND KEJRIWAL (CENTRE) STANDING HOLDING PLANT POT ALONG WITH OTHERS DURING INAUGURAL EVENT OF SMOG TOWER SMOG TWOER KEJRIWAL UNVEILING PLAQUE KEJRIWAL PRESSING POWER SWITCHES OF TOWER (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) DELHI CHIEF, ARVIND KEJRIWAL, SAYING: "Delhi has installed India's first-ever smog tower to fight pollution and clean the air." SMOG TOWER SIGNBOARD VARIOUS OF FANS AT TOWER
- Embargoed: 6th September 2021 11:28
- Keywords: Air quality index arvind Kejriwal climate change pollution smog tower stubble burning
- Location: NEW DELHI, INDIA
- City: NEW DELHI, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Pollution,Environment
- Reuters ID: LVA001ERI1U1B
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Delhi government on Monday (August 23) inaugurated a smog tower to tackle the pollution that engulfs the national capital every year during the months of October, making the air unbreathable for residents.
Last year Delhi's 20 million residents, who breathed some of the cleanest air on record in summer months due to the lockdown curbs, battled toxic air in winter, following a sharp increase in farm fire incidents in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
According to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5 said New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020.
The tower, which is about 24 meters high, has been installed Connaught Place market area of the city.
In 2020, New Delhi's average annual concentration of PM2.5 in a cubic meter of air was 84.1, the study said, more than double the level of Beijing, which averaged 37.5 during the year, making it the 14th most polluted city in the world.
As the burning of crop stubble peaked, Delhi's PM2.5 levels averaged 144 micrograms per cubic metre in November and 157 micrograms per cubic metre in December, exceeding the World Health Organisation's annual exposure guideline by more than 14 times, it said. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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