Air quality in Himachal’s Baddi slips to ‘very poor’ category first time this season

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Himachal According to Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station (CAAQMS), located successful Baddi, which provides real-time aerial prime scale (AQI) readings, Baddi's AQI stood astatine 308 (6 p.m. connected Friday). (Express File)

As the aerial prime of the concern municipality of Baddi successful Himachal Pradesh’s Solan territory slipped to the “very poor” class for the archetypal clip successful this play connected Friday, the Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB) has issued advisories to the Municipal Committee, Baddi, and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to instrumentality contiguous measures to curb the rising contamination levels.

According to Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station (CAAQMS), located successful Baddi, which provides real-time aerial prime scale (AQI) readings, Baddi’s AQI stood astatine 308 (6 p.m. connected Friday). The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) classifies AQI 301-400 arsenic “very poor”.

The AQI levels successful Manali and Sundernagar (Mandi district) fell successful the “good” class implicit the past 24 hours, with Manali signaling an AQI of 30 portion that of Sundernagar stood astatine 49.

Shimla (57), Dharamshala (73), Una (82), Parwanoo (90), and Damtal (70) reported AQI levels successful the “satisfactory” category. Four places, including Paonta Sahib (119), Kala Amb (145), Barotiwala (150), and Nalagarh (130), recorded AQI levels successful the “moderate” category. Kala Amb and Paonta Sahib (both (Sirmour district) are concern towns, portion Barotiwala and Nalagarh (both Solan district) are adjacent to Baddi.

At present, Himachal Pradesh has lone 1 CAAQMS, which is located successful Baddi. It was installed successful March this year.

Neeraj Gupta, Additional Director, HPSPCB, said, “Biomass burning and extended road operation successful and astir Baddi, coupled with stubble burning successful neighbouring Punjab and Haryana, are large factors contributing to the deteriorating aerial prime successful Baddi. We person advised the Municipal Committee to forestall biomass burning and urged NHAI authorities to bash predominant h2o sprinkling during road operation activities successful the country to bring down the contamination level. Separate advisories person been issued to some departments.”

The operation of a four-lane ringing roadworthy from Mullanpur (Punjab) to Baddi was precocious initiated, on with 2 different road projects successful Baddi by the NHAI. Manoj Chauhan, Chief Scientific Officer, HPSPCB, said, “We person to support a information successful caput that the harvest signifier successful the 5 towns, including Baddi, is rather akin to the harvest signifier of Punjab and Haryana. All these towns are connected the borderline of the 2 states. From this constituent of view, stubble burning either successful the areas of the adjoining states oregon wrong these towns is besides an issue.”

Kala Amb borders the Naraingarh country of Ambala territory successful Haryana, Paonta Sahib shares boundaries with Yamunanagar territory of Haryana, and Barotiwala and Nalagarh borderline Kalka and Pinjore successful Panchkula territory (Haryana).

Additionally, Baddi shares its boundaries with Mohali successful Punjab and parts of Panchkula.

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