This winter has witnessed extremely high level of pollution. Typical winter conditions --cold temperature, lower mixing height of air, calm and no-wind conditions trap air and pollution. As a result, pollution builds up very quickly and peaks. This is why winter months require tougher emergency action to reduce pollution.
CSE has analysed air quality data from real-time monitoring of Delhi Pollution Control Board for the entire winter – November 2015 to January 2016 – to assess the benefits of the odd and even scheme and the loss of air quality gains after the completion of the scheme. It has found that the odd and even scheme, although limited in scope and ambit, could still slow down the peaking of pollution even when weather was hostile – no wind, lower temperature and western disturbance in the northern region.
PUNE: Assailed with traffic problems and pollution levels similar to Delhi's, there is an outside chance that Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) may implement the odd and even vehicle on the road for
A new study has claimed that the volume of respirable pollutants in the air were reduced by up to 18 per cent during 15-day trial of the odd-even scheme that regulated the plying of four-wheelers o
New Delhi: While car owners grumpily awaited their alternate day on Delhi roads during the recent 15-day driving experiment, there was one group that grinned happily every day.
Motor vehicle, air pollution, Bharat Stage The Delhi government had earlier claimed that the vehicular restrictions had managed to arrest the rise in peak pollution levels and that the overall redu
