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Real-time noise monitoring system to be set up in Pune city
In the first phase, the board will set up two systems in residential areas that will monitor round-the-clock noise pollution data, said officials
Updated on May 20, 2023 10:32 PM IST
Gayatri Vajpeyee
MPCB to restart its Star Rating Programme to evaluate industrial pollution
The Star Rating Programme was launched on World Environment Day in June 2017 to rate large industrial plants based on their emission
Updated on May 20, 2023 12:04 AM IST
Gayatri Vajpeyee
State plans major upgrade to manual air quality monitoring network
A total of 205 new manual monitoring devices, including 123 low-volume dust samplers for measuring PM2.5, and 82 high-volume samplers for monitoring PM10 -- are proposed to be deployed in more than two dozen cities; including Mumbai, which will get nine new manual monitoring stations
Updated on May 13, 2023 10:44 PM IST
Prayag Arora-Desai
MPCB to use mobile vans to collect ambient air quality data in Pune
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has launched five mobile air quality monitoring vans to expand monitoring systems and check ambient air quality in cities including Pune and Mumbai.
Updated on May 10, 2023 10:23 PM IST
Gayatri Vajpeyee
State to get 36 new noise monitoring stations, but citizens won’t have access to data
The list of 36 new proposed monitoring sites is being finalised, and includes places across residential, commercial, industrial and ‘silence’ land-use categories. Sixteen of these sites will be present in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), with four new monitors each in Vasai-Virar, Kalyan-Dombivali, Thane and Navi Mumbai.
Updated on May 03, 2023 12:28 AM IST
Prayag Arora-Desai
