Pollution monitoring in Mumbai not up to the mark, says study
Even as Mumbaiites have suffered from poor air quality in the past few months, the city along with Pune and Jaipur have minimal air quality monitoring and management. A 10-city rapid assessment by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment has revealed that Mumbai is among the two cities with the least number of manual and real-time air monitoring stations, the lowest being Pune. At present, air quality data takes into account readings that are only measured by two manual monitoring stations at Bandra and Sion and not through real-time ones, which according to researchers misrepresents the actual extent of air pollution. Worse, only one of the four real-time monitoring stations is in operation and has recorded air quality index for just 80 days between January 2016 and March 2016. “Although all cities have a combination of manual and real-time monitoring, there is an underestimation of the problem since air quality data is taken only from the manual monitoring system,” said Roychowdhury at the Conclave — Our Right to Clean Air: Enabling city action plan for clean air.
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