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Managing Air Quality in India
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- On: 11/02/2026 16:44:40
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EM – November 2026: This issue of EM looks at some of the National Clean Air Program initiatives to improve air quality management in India.
by Prakash DoraiswamyManaging air quality has been a constant challenge facing India given its rapid growth. In 2019, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change launched the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) with the goal of reducing particulate matter concentrations by 20–30% by 2024–2025, later revised to 40% by 2025–2026, relative to the 2017–2018 levels. In the first phase of the NCAP, the program focused on 131 nonattainment cities and allotted funding to the urban-local bodies to tackle the sources. The NCAP has assigned cities and states with the tasks of developing clean air action plans, expanding air monitoring network, developing emission inventories, performing source apportionment studies, and designing and implementing intervention measures. These actions have enabled a better understanding of pollution sources, their contributions, and also uncovered unaccounted/under-accounted sources. The following articles examine some of the new initiatives.
Continue reading the full November 2026 issue of EM.
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