NEW DELHI: More than 70 per cent of the air quality monitoring stations in the country are not meeting the requirement of collecting data of at least 104 days a year, a new report has said.
The report ‘Breathing Space: How to track and report air pollution under the National Clean Air Programme’ was released at the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Annual Media Conclave held in Nimli, near Alwar by Bhure Lal, chairperson, Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA).
“There is poor data capture for reporting air quality trends in India. Manual monitors require at least 104 days of monitoring, which is 28.5 per cent of the days in a year.
“But CSE’s assessment of the latest available manual data for all cities show that as much as 73 per cent of monitoring stations do not meet this requirement,” the report said. (AGENCIES)
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