Presentation made by Sunil Dahiya, Senior Campaigner (Climate and Energy), Greenpeace India at a workshop in Pune focusing on review and critique of the draft National Clean Air Programme.

1. Air Pollution – An issue beyond Delhi-NCR
14th May 2018:
Hall A 3, Third Floor, PYC Hindu
Gymkhana, Pune
By: Sunil Dahiya
Senior Campaigner, Climate and Energy
Greenpeace India

2. Air Pollution & Its sources
• Transfer of harmful and/or of Natural/Synthetic materials into
the atmosphere as a direct/indirect consequences of human
activity (OECD)
Natural Sources-
Volcano, forest fire,
dust storms, oceans,
plants and trees
Anthropogenic Sources- Create by
human beings
Stationary Sources Mobile Sources
Point Sources
(Industrial
processing,
power plants,
fuel combustion
etc.)
Area Sources
(Residential
heating, open
burning etc.)
Line Sources
(Highway
Vehicles,
railroad
locomotives
etc.)

3. 0
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Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16 May-16 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16 Nov-16 Dec-16
PM10(µg/m3)
PM2.5 Conc. In Delhi 2016
2016

4. Is Air Pollution only limited to Winters?
Is Air Pollution limited to Delhi alone?

5. 0
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Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16 May-16 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16 Nov-16 Dec-16
PM10(µg/m3) PM10 levels across Uttar Pradesh (January 2016 to
December 2016)
Lucknow NAAQS WHO Kanpur Allahabad Varanasi Agra Noida

6. 0
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2014 2015 2016 NAAQS WHO
Annual Average PM10 levels Across Uttar Pradesh since 2014

7. 0
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PM10(µg/m3)
RSPM (PM10) levels across Maharashtra Since 2011
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 NAAQS WHO

9. 0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
TotalVehiclesPopulation
Year
Total Vehicles Population in Pune and few other nearby
areas
Pune Solapur Pimpri-Chinchwad Baramati Akluj
0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
No.ofDisel,Petrol,L.P.G.&C.N.G.Motor
VehiclesPopulation
No. of Disel, Petrol, L.P.G. & C.N.G. Motor Vehicles Population
in Pune (2011 to 2017)
Diesel Petrol LPG CNG Others
0
100000
200000
300000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Category Wise Number of Motor Vehicles Newly registered in Pune during the year 2011-2017
Category Motor Cycles Scooters Mopeds Motor Cars Jeeps
Station Wagons Tractors Trailers Others Meter Fited Tourist Cabs
Autorikshaws Stage Carriages Contract Carriages/
MiniBus
School Buses Pvt. Service Vehicles Ambulances
HSD 1019499 1109627 1145373
MS 433991 497907 532928
No. of Vehicles and Fuel Consumption

10. Motor Cycles
72%
Scooters
0%
Mopeds
0%
Motor Cars
19%
Tourist Cabs
2%
Autorikshaws
2% Trucks &
Lorries
1%
Delivery Vans (4
WH)
1% Delivery Vans (3 WH)
1%
Vehicle Category Wise Break-up in Pune City

11. WHO 2018 Report

12. WHO 2018 Report

13. WHO 2018 Report

15. Satellite Image (AOD) 2005 & 2017
https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/servlet/RenderData?si=1712120&cs=rgb&format=JPEG&width=3600&height=1800
January 2005
May 2005
January 2017
May 2017

16. Changes in AOD (PM2.5) over past 10 years
(a) 2005
(b) 2009
(c) 2015

17. AOD derived PM2.5 concentrations over
India
Total 2015 Change over 2009-2015

18. “It’s just cars / fog / dust…”
Urban air pollution is essentially always a mixture
of regional and local sources

19. Agricultural Biomass burning: According to monthly report by Department of Agriculture, Rajasthan for February-
March 2017 submitted to CPCB, 21.92 m tones of residue was burnt in Uttar Pradesh followed by Punjab (19.65),
Haryana (9.08), Madhya Pradesh (1.91) and Rajasthan (1.78).
Other Major Sources of Air Pollution:
• DG sets,
• Irrigation pumps,
• Construction activities,
• Municipal solid waste burning,
• Solid biomass used for cooking,
• Dust on the roads,
• Resuspension of Dust from River Beds (i.e., Ganges) and
• Fly ash from coal based TPPs etc.
Other Major Sources of Pollution

20. • Look at the air pollution problem as regional and comprehensive approach rather than city
specific problem and start working on larger geography centric Regional Clean Air Action Plan.
• Including right combination of policies for power generation, industry, transport, construction
and agriculture for combating air pollution issue.
• Making public transport more reliable and safe so that people can shift from polluting individual
private vehicles to public transport.
• Expanding the distribution and reach of real time air pollution data and information on robust
Graded Response Action Plan (as emergency measures) across regions to the general public
through various mediums, such as TV, Radio, Newspapers, Mobile Apps and Web Portals.
• Issuing real time Health Advisory with the data on air pollution to the general public suggesting
them to take concerned actions and activities with the varying pollution levels.
• Strengthening the emission standards for thermal power plants and other industries to reduce
the pollution levels with proper implementation of the existing laws.
• Implementing stricter norms for vehicles and upgrading to more efficient and stricter emission
norms emission.
• Emphasis on aggressive usage of renewable sources of energy to replace polluting energy sources
for household and transport energy demand
As a way ahead to solve this Health Emergency we should

21. Air Quality Data Availability
• NAQI Web Portal
– Web Address: http://182.74.164.179:9000/
– In April 2015 the NAQI programme was started with 10 cities providing
air quality data to the web based system and is expected to cover 46
cities having population more than a million and 20 state capitals
• CPCB and SPCB websites
• Mobile Apps
– Safar
– Sameer
– Plume Air
– Clean Air Nation (Greenpeace India)

23. For more information:
Sunil Dahiya
Senior Campaigner, Climate and Energy
Greenpeace India
Mobile: +91 9013673250
Email ID: sunil.dahiya@greenpeace.org