First smog tower in Delhi to be inaugurated on August 23 All You Need to Know

pDelhi has been suffering to provide a air that is safe to breathe in as pollution has deteriorated the air quality in the capitalppnbspPeople of Delhi here comes a piece of good news for you all Very soon you all will be able to breathe fresh airppYou donrsquot have to suffer from air pollution anymore The national capitalrsquos first smog tower will be inaugurated on August 23 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal This was informed by Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on ThursdayppAs per updates from the minister the 20-metre-tall structure being set up to improve air quality in a radius of around 1 km will operate at full capacity after the monsoon seasonppldquoChief Minister Arvid Kejriwal will inaugurate the smog tower on August 23 Thereafter experts will ascertain its impact on pollution Based on the results we will take a decision on installing more equipmentrdquo he saidnbspppstrongDelhirsquos first smog tower All you need to knownbspstrongpulliThe Delhi cabinet had approved the pilot project in October last yearliliThe smog tower will be able to purify 1000 cubic metres of air per secondliliA two-year pilot study will be undertaken to ascertain the effectiveness of the smog tower after it becomes operationalliliA control room has been set up at the site to monitor the operations of the smog towerliliAnother 25-metre-tall smog tower built by the central government at Anand Vihar is expected to become operational by August 31 the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB saidliliTata Projects Limited TPL is building the two smog towers with technical support from IIT-Bombay which in collaboration with IIT-Delhi will validate their performanceliliThe NBCC India Ltd has been appointed as project management consultantliliThe CPCB is the nodal agency for the tower at Anand Vihar while the Delhi Pollution Control Committee is the nodal agency for the one coming up at Cannaught PlaceliliThe two towers will have 1200 air filters each developed by experts at the University of Minnesota in the United States which also helped design a 100-metre-high smog tower in Xian ChinaliliThe smog towers being built at a cost of Rs 22 crore each are estimated to reduce concentration of PM25 up to 70 per cent in a 1-km radius around thembr nbspliul