“A task force under the chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) with representatives of expert institutions has been set up to build a strategy for developing an early warning system on air quality, as well as the dissemination of warning to public. The reason to set up an early warning system for air pollution is to further strengthen the air quality forecast.Establishing early warning system and dissemination protocol to inform public and enforcing agencies about episodic high pollution events in advance is amongst the priorities identified for improving management of air pollution. A meeting of the task force was convened on 28.07.2018.  Accordingly, MoES is coordinating the development of an early warning system for air quality over Delhi & NCR region”.

This information was given by Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Mahesh Sharma in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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