Air pollution in Delhi: Is the next monitoring station coming up in your area? Check the list

Every time we talk about air quality in the city, the perennially polluted Anand Vihar or the air monitoring stations at RK Puram and Punjabi Bagh pop up. Air pollution data in Delhi is currently taken from 28 monitoring stations – four run by the DPCC, eight by the Met department and the rest by the Central Pollution Control Board. Hindustan Times has the final list of these new air quality monitoring stations being set up by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and they are expected to be in place before Diwali this year. Spot the station The new stations, setting up of which has been tendered to an Australian company, will be at: IIT Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Dhyanchand Stadium Shooting Range in Asola Football Federation in Dwarka IGNOU in Maidan Garhi Saket Mundka metro yard Ambedkar Bhawan in Rohini Okhla Industrial Estate PUSA Institutional Area Delhi Cantonment General Hospital ITI Narela Chhatrasal Stadium Sonia Vihar Water Treatment Plant Mother Dairy Plant in Patparganj Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Disease Hospital in Kingsway Camp DAV College in Sriniwaspuri Satyawati College in GT Karnal Road Bramprakash Ayurvedic Hospital in Najafgarh Maharshi Valmiki Hospital Pooth Khurd Air pollution data in the capital is currently taken from 28 monitoring stations – four run by the DPCC, eight by the Met department and the rest by the Central Pollution Control Board. “As per international guidelines, the correct way to know one index for a city air quality is to consider different micro-environments… For a typical metro city, commercial; urban complex; sub-urban; residential; industrial; road side; traffic junction are the micro-environments which should be covered in the monitoring network,” a World Meteorological Organisation report says, regarding the need for different types of areas while monitoring pollution.