{"id":9512,"date":"2019-08-26T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2019-08-26T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:48:22","slug":"csir-to-certify-air-quality-monitoring-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-to-certify-air-quality-monitoring-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR to certify air quality monitoring sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Environment Ministry has designated Council\nof Scientific and Industrial Research\u2014National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL)\nas the national verification agency for certifying air quality monitoring\ninstruments.<\/li><li>CSR NPL will develop necessary infrastructure,\ntesting and certification facilities conforming to ISO standards for both\nautomatic and manual samplers.<\/li><li>Currently, the air quality monitoring\ninstruments employed by State and Central Pollution Control Boards (SPCB and\nCPCB) are imported.<\/li><li>The decision to certify the instruments has come\nin the backdrop of anticipation of rising demand of air quality monitoring instruments\nby states against the backdrop of National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).<\/li><li>In 2019, National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) has\nbeen launched for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution in India.\nIt is a five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year.<\/li><li>It aims at 20%\u201330% reduction of PM2.5and PM10\nconcentration by 2024, taking 2017 as the base year for the comparison of\nconcentration.<\/li><li>The programme targets 102 non-attainment cities\nwhich were identified by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on the basis of\ntheir ambient air quality data between 2011 and 2015.Non-attainment cities are\nthose which have been consistently showing poorer air quality than the National\nAmbient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).<\/li><li>The NCAP requires cities to come up with\ncity-specific plans that include increasing the number of monitoring stations,\nproviding technology support, conducting source apportionment studies, and\nstrengthening enforcement.<\/li><li>The cities are required to implement specific\nmeasures in a time-bound manner. Example: ensuring roads are pothole-free to\nimprove traffic flow and thereby reduce dust (within 60 days).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Ministry has designated Council of Scientific and Industrial Research\u2014National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL) as the national verification agency for certifying air quality monitoring instruments. CSR NPL will develop necessary infrastructure, testing and certification facilities conforming to ISO standards for both automatic and manual samplers. Currently, the air quality monitoring instruments employed by State and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-to-certify-air-quality-monitoring-sensors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSIR to certify air quality monitoring sensors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-national-clean-air-programme","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773929},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","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=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}