{"id":31538,"date":"2018-10-27T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31538"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:06:58","slug":"dust-mitigation-plan-must-for-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dust-mitigation-plan-must-for-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust mitigation plan must for firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dust-mitigation-plan-must-for-firms\/article22637457.ece\"><strong>Dust mitigation plan must for firms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Environment Ministry has made it <strong>mandatory for companies<\/strong> seeking environment clearance to ensure that they put in place a dust mitigation plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roads leading to or at construction sites must be paved and black-topped<\/li>\n<li>There could be no soil excavation without adequate dust mitigation measures in place<\/li>\n<li>No loose soil, sand, construction waste could be left uncovered<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>water sprinkling system<\/strong> was mandatory, and the measures taken should be prominently displayed at the construction site<\/li>\n<li>The grinding and cutting of building materials in open area is prohibited and no uncovered vehicles carrying construction material and waste would be permitted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who developed the standards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The standards were developed by the Central Pollution Control Board as part of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is responsible for pollution in Delhi?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key pollutants<\/strong>: A study by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and commissioned by the Delhi government reported, in 2015, that <strong>road dust, burning of biomass and municipal solid waste,<\/strong> constituted the lion\u2019s share of the city\u2019s air pollution<\/p>\n<p><strong>Road dust, key villain<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Road dust contributed <strong>56% of all PM10 pollution<\/strong>, while it was <strong>38% for PM2.5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Another estimate by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune had different numbers but still ranked dust as the major contributor \u2014 52% \u2014 to the city\u2019s PM10 load<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dust is a generic term for a vast mix of metals and non-metals \u2014 silicon, aluminium, titanium, manganese, copper, barium, antimony, selenium and zinc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust mitigation plan must for firms Context The Environment Ministry has made it mandatory for companies seeking environment clearance to ensure that they put in place a dust mitigation plan Required standards Roads leading to or at construction sites must be paved and black-topped There could be no soil excavation without adequate dust mitigation measures&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dust-mitigation-plan-must-for-firms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dust mitigation plan must for firms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816163},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}