Faridabad: The road full of holes that send dust with each passing vehicle, layer of soot coating trees lining arterial roads, thick dirt patina above the car window parked – air pollution caused by dust that is nervous getting worse in Faridabad with each passing year.
The Lone District of Hanyana was included in the List of Non-City Clean Clean National Programs in 2019, Faridabad air quality for the last two winter has been in the ‘Very Poor’ category, data data control pollution control shows.
The average air quality index (AQI) until December 16 this year, has been recorded at 304 (on a scale of up to 500) in the ‘very poor’ category, while AQI November overall around 370, up from 316 recorded in the appropriate period of the year then.
“With most roads not paved and damaged, there are layers of dust in plants and trees intended to ‘beautify’ our main chowks,” said Sector 23 Resident Gaurav Kumar.
Regions, such as Sector 25, 26, 16, 15, BK Chowk, Neelam Chowk and the newly developed sectors along Faridabad bypass Road, has been covered by the veil of powdered dust since the beginning of this year’s winter.
“Because the internal road near the Chowk hardware has not been repaired for long and loose land sent flying every time the vehicle passed.
I have stopped using a motorcycle and turned to four-wheeled vehicles to travel, but not many were able to do the same thing,” Suresh Sharma, a resident of sector 26, told toi.
With the work of infrastructure projects that take place, the problem only exacerbates regional occupants such as sector 6, 48, and larger faridabad.
Walking even five minutes in these areas, Ranvir Saini, a resident of sector 50, said “It was difficult and could trigger a cough fight”.
Cases of shortness of breath, allergies, eye infections and bronchitis have seen uptick in recent years, experts say, with a surge in pollution – vehicle emissions, construction waste and demolition, burning of garbage, road dust and industrial pollution into several major contributors.
However, the state pollution control board of Haryana (HSPCB), however, has identified the dust of the road as the main cause of air pollution in the city and recently collected a 90-lakh RS sentence in the Indian National Highway Authority (NHAI), Corporation Municipal Faridabad (MCF ) and Urban Development Authority Haryana (Huda) for dust pollution.
According to regional officers Faridabad HSPCB Smita Kanodia, PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels are increasing due to the re-suspension of road dust, vehicle emissions, use of diesel generator sets, construction activities, burning domestic fossil fuels, open combustion, open burning solid waste, Transportation of construction materials, such as sand and land, without a cover, and emissions of the brick kiln located around Faridabad.
“Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) has also been observed at a worry rate.
This is mainly due to vehicle emissions,” Kanodia said.
Anumite Roychowdhury, Executive Director of Research and Advocacy in the Center for Science and Environment (CSE), said city air quality has slid up to 2019.
“But it has deteriorated in the past two years, CPCB data shows.” HSPCB mitigation plans not only identified 37 pollution hotspots in the district but also arranged an action plan to improve air quality, including installing six Asmog towers in Ballabgarh Sohna Chowk, Neelam Chowk, Old Faridabad, Sector 29 Chowk Bypass Road and Sector 37 in December.
Transfer from the traffic choke point, there is no parking and encroachment in an area that is not detailed, bear the vehicle gasoline and diesel each of which is more than 15 and 10 years old, sprinkled water on the road, mechanical sweeping and ensuring a free road on the list Check, said official.
MCF also plans to remove the earth’s surplus from the MUMS road and the central threshold, grass paver tiles, and identify areas to increase green cover.
It also identifies seven open spaces to install micro STP.
The proposal to buy an anti-fog weapon to spray water up to a distance of 70-80 meters with a rotating angle of 360 degrees horizontally as a pilot project has also begun, a MCF official said.