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| State working on air quality atlas |
| Press Trust Of India / Chennai/ Bangalore Feb 09, 2010, 00:10 IST |
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It will help locate pollution hotspots
Karnataka is working on preparing an air quality atlas for the state to generate information on pollution status and locate pollution hotspots, a senior government official said today. The initiative is being driven jointly by Karnataka’s Ecology and Environment Department and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board.
The department secretary, Kanwerpal, said the idea was to identify pollution hotspots in the state so that various departments, under State Implementation Plan, could “act upon” and initiate “interventions” to reduce pollution levels. “We are working with KSPCB”, he said at an All-India workshop on “Urban Air Pollution Forecasting, Monitoring and Implementation,” here. An index would be created based on 12 pollutants and “people should know the quality of the air”, Kanwerpal said.
He said the Centre has declared 88 industrial sites in the country, including five in Karnataka — Mangalore, Bhadrawati, Peenya (Bangalore), Raichur and Bidar — as being polluted above the accepted levels in terms of air, water and land degradation. Of the five, Mangalore and Bhadrawati industrial hubs had been termed as “critically polluted”.
“No more industrialisation of any kind” — no environmen al clearance — as a moratorium has been declared for eight months in the five hubs, Kanwerpal said, adding, the state had initiated an action plan to reduce pollution levels.
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