Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai Monday launched a 24×7 ‘Green War Room’ to monitor air pollution in the Capital. An 8-member team of environmental engineers and experts has been deployed to monitor the war room, he said.
The ‘Green War Room and Green Delhi Application’ is one of the focus points of the 21-Point Winter Action Plan rolled out on September 25. “To implement the entire (winter) action plan and monitor it, the war room is being started from today…,” Rai told mediapersons.
He said seven tasks have been assigned to the war room — analyse data from NASA satellite on stubble burning, drone mapping and 24-hour AQI monitoring stations; conduct real-time source apportionment studies; resolve complaints through Green Delhi App and ensure inter-departmental coordination.
The Green Delhi App, a platform to submit pollution-related grievances, was launched by the government in October 2020. Designed for residents and agencies, the application also records complaints recorded by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the public works department, the Delhi Development Authority, the Delhi Jal Board, and the Irrigation and Flood Control Department.
Calling the measure to be “quite successful”, Rai said that 88% of the 80,473 complaints received so far through the app have been resolved.
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