Patna: Green belts with solid canopy trees will be developed along Ganga as part of the steps of the state government to curb pollution in the country’s capital, said Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (EFCC) Neeraj Kumar Singh, while releasing study reports The division of sources for Ambient Particulate Matter (PM) -2021 for Patna on Friday.
He said the plantation on the edge of the Ganges would help examine the windy dust sediments reached state capital and increased the burden of pollution.
This study was conducted by the Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), the Center for Environment, Energy and Climate Change, the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Patna and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
When the plantation along Ganga is one of the suggestions made in this study, the minister said similar forests would be made along other rivers that passed the important cities of the country to examine pollution.
“Global warming has now become an international problem.
However, the country through various programs such as the Ujwala scheme for rural women to examine pollution by burning wood in the kitchen, and the Drive of a large Neem tree plantation in all Bihar government hospitals is some environmentally friendly steps launched by Government, “Neeraj is said.
Seven Patna locations, including housing, commercial and industrial, were chosen for the study of the quality of the air around.
Among chemical constituents, ammonia ions, calcium, chlorine, sulfur and nitrite are the most dominating elements found in air samples.
Dust from roads, land and construction work are other agents add to the concentration of particle material in the city air.
This study suggests sweeping mechanical roads and pathways and control of effective dust around the construction site.
The main secretary of the EFCC Department, Deepak Kumar Singh, was also present in his function.
Other people who overcome the research release function include Dr.
AK Ghosh, Chair of the Bighar Pollus Control Board (BPCB), R Suresh of Teri, P Ghosh from Adri and S Chandrashekhar, BPCB member secretary.
Pooja Tiwari from Philanthropy Bloomberg was also present on that occasion.