Now, Know The Air You Breathe

Come October, each day you will know how pollut- ed the air you breathe will be the following day.

  Following the pattern of weather forecasts, the Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology (IITM), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, is set to start a pilot project to forecast the air qual- ity in the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games (CWG).

Once the experimentation stage is over, the project will be taken over by the India Metrological Department (IMD).

"The experiment phase starts in July. Twenty micro- processors with a resolution of three kilometers each will be placed all over Delhi to assess the quality of air," said B Mukhopadhyay, Deputy Director General, IMD.
The air quality will be calcu- lated in percentages.

"If the air quality forecast predicts 80 per cent air quali- ty it will mean that the air is 80 per cent safe while 20 per cent of the air has particles harmful for humans," Mukhopadhyay added.

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Commonwealth Games Concerns : Air's The Truth, Delhi Air Can Turn You Sick

The Delhi government uphill task of cleaning the city's air before the Commonwealth Games. The city's air is choked with tiny, toxic particles that travel to the deepest parts of the lungs.Doctors have noticed the effect on people. Data available at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) show increasing number of new patients with asthmatic symp- toms.

"We have noticed an increas- ing trend of young boys and girls who came to Delhi a year two ago from other states, developing asthmatic symp- toms," said Dr Randeep Guleria, specialist in pulmonary diseases at AIIMS. "Most of these patients do not smoke and do not have a history of asthma."

The Centre for Science and Environment has done a "pre- Commonwealth Games assess- ment" of Delhi's air quality mon- itored by the Central Pollution Control Board and come up with some alarming figures.

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