Published By: Sheen Kachroo
Last Updated: November 03, 2023, 18:24 IST
The metropolis authorities had fashioned a crew of specialists from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay to review its impression over two years. (Image: PTI)
The minister instructed reporters that Kumar, who assumed the position of DPCC chairman in December, “stopped the release of funds to IIT-Bombay and other agencies working on the project, without informing the government”
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai stated on Friday that the big smog tower put in at Connaught Place two years in the past to cut back air air pollution within the neighborhood has been shut down arbitrarily on the orders of Delhi Pollution Control Committee Chairman (DPCC) Ashwani Kumar.
The minister instructed reporters right here that Kumar, who assumed the position of DPCC chairman in December, “stopped the release of funds to IIT-Bombay and other agencies working on the project, without informing the government”.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had inaugurated the more-than-24-metre-high smog tower at Connaught Place on August 23, 2021.
The metropolis authorities had fashioned a crew of specialists from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay to review its impression over two years.
Sharing the smog tower information, Rai had stated final 12 months that the enormous air air purifier might cut back air air pollution by 70 to 80 per cent inside a radius of fifty metres and by 15 to twenty per cent as much as 300 metres.
Officials had beforehand stated the smog tower, constructed at a price of Rs 20 crore, might purify the air in a one-kilometre radius at a fee of round 1,000 cubic metres per second. The smog tower has 40 massive followers that draw air from the highest of a particular cover construction and launch clear air under.
In October, Rai had alleged that the Delhi authorities’s first-of-its-kind examine to find out air pollution sources within the nationwide capital was unilaterally halted on the orders of Kumar. The Delhi cupboard had accepted the examine proposal in July 2021 and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IIT-Kanpur in October 2022.
The estimated price was greater than Rs 12 crore. The Delhi authorities had launched Rs 10 crore to IIT-Kanpur for the procurement of obligatory tools and organising a centralised supersite for information assortment.
However, in February, Kumar made a file notice expressing considerations in regards to the “substantial expenses associated with the study” after a number of conferences with IIT-Kanpur scientists. On October 18, Kumar issued orders to cease the discharge of the remaining funds to IIT-Kanpur, successfully cancelling the examine, Rai had claimed.
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