New Delhi: Chairman of the Minister of Arvind KeRriwal is expected to inaugurate the first smog tower of the national capital at Connaught Place on August 23, Delhi government officials said on Friday.
More about Delhi-NCR: direct updates to read the Alsotower structure in Connaught place in Delhi to exhale the clean airconnaught place will soon get an anti-fog tower to overcome the surrounding air pollution.
It has been cleaned by the Delhi cabinet and will be built at a cost of Rs 20 Crore, Chairman of Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Friday.
The construction of the Smog Tower has been completed and the inauguration will occur on August 23, not August 15, an official said asking for anonymity.
This photo was taken on July 21, 2021 showed a worker at the construction site of a 25-meter high-smog tower (82 feet) near Connaught Place in New Delhi – Money Sharma (AFP) structure as high as more than 20 meters, set up to improve air quality within a radius About 1 km, it should be ready on June 15.
Read Alsodelhi: fighting pollution with the Smog Orderfter Anand Vihar Tower and Connaught Place, the anti-fog tower tends to be installed as part of the Central Vista project.
While the Supreme Court has been directed to anti-fog weapons to be used during the construction phase, a tower will be needed for Vista so complete.
The Minister of Environment Gopal Rai previously said the Covid-19 pandemic was postponing the smog construction work.
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The Delhi Cabinet has approved the pilot project in October last year.
Read Alsowhy Smog Towers may not fix problems in Delhi Installing the Smog Tower in the capital may take ten more months, with a fresh MoU signed by IIT-Bombay with the central government.
The work will be carried out using the expertise of the University of Minnesota and Iit Delhi.
At present, Delhi has only one smog tower – a 20-foot device, which is a smoke tower to be able to purify 1,000 cubic meters of air per second, according to Rai.
A two-year pilot study will be carried out to ensure the effectiveness of the smoke tower after being operational, the official said above.
The 25-meter smoke tower is 25 meters high, which was built by the central government in Anand Vihar, is expected to operate on August 31, said the Central Pollution Control Board official.
Photo file: Working in the second smog tower in Delhi, in Anand Vihar, took place – Piyal Bhattacharjee (TOI) Tata Projects Limited (TPL) is building two Asmog towers with technical support from IIT-Bombay, which, cooperates with IIT -Delhi, will validate their performance.
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CPCB is a nodal agent for the tower in Anand Vihar, while the Delhi pollution control committee is a nodal agent for those who come in Connaught Place.
Both towers will have 1,200 air filters, each developed by experts at the University of Minnesota in the United States – which also helps design a Smog 100 meter-high in Xian, China.
The smoke tower, which was built at a cost of each Rs 22 Crore, is estimated to reduce PM concentration 2.5 to 70 percent in a 1 km radius around them.
The Supreme Court in January last year directed the central government to build a smoke tower to reduce pollution in Anand Vihar and the Delhi Government to install other structures at Connaught Place in three months.
In August, the Apex Court had reprimanded the center and the state government for losing deadlines in completing the construction of two Asmog towers.