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Air Quality Management
Plans in 16 Cities
New Delhi, September 05, 2008
Sixteen cities in the country have been identified for
implementation of Air Quality Management Plans based on
Suspended Particle Molecules (SPM). This plan primarily
contains phasing out of old vehicles, use of better quality
fuel, improved system of checking of in-use vehicles, traffic
management etc. The respective State Pollution Control Boards
and State Environment Departments have submitted the Action
Plans which are at various stages of implementation.
Four cities from Uttar Pradesh and three from Maharashtra are
under this scanner.They are Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, and
Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Pune, Mumbai and Sholapur in
Maharashtra. Other states have one city each to implement this
plan. They are Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Patna, Bihar,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Faridabad ,Haryana,
Jharia,Jharkhand,Bangalore, Karnataka,Jodhpur,
Rajasthan,Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Kolkata in West Bengal.
It is estimated that about 60-70 % of pollution is contributed
by vehicular emissions.
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