Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences and Environment, Forest and Climate change, Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated air pollution control device WAYU (Wind Augmentation PurifYing Unit)
WAYU has been installed for traffic junctions at ITO intersection and Mukarba Chowk in Delhi.
WAYU is developed by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research –National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI)
It has been indigenously developed as a part of Technology Development Project being funded by Department of Science and Technology.
The device works on two principles mainly Wind generation for dilution of air pollutants and Active Pollutants removal.