The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released the draft of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).
NCAP aims to enhance and develop an effective and a proficient network to monitor the ambient air quality across the country for a comprehensive and reliable database.
The Ministry has detailed a host of measures to bring down air pollution in the country under the NCAP and few of these are:
Air quality monitoring network
Identification of alternative technology for real-time monitoring
Setting up of 10 city super network
Indoor air pollution monitoring and management
Air pollution health impact studies
Air quality forecasting system
Issuance of notification on dust management
Setting up of Three-tier mechanism for review, assessment and inspection for implementation of the NCAP.