This story is from June 7, 2020

Bihar: Air quality monitoring station at TMBU soon

An air quality monitoring station (AQMS) is likely to be set up in the postgraduate department of physics on the premises of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (TMBU) here soon. The AQMS will monitor and give data on concentration of different pollutants in the air as well as some weather elements.
Bihar: Air quality monitoring station at TMBU soon
File photo of air quality monitoring stations at Rajdhani Vatika in Patna
BHAGALPUR: An air quality monitoring station (AQMS) is likely to be set up in the postgraduate department of physics on the premises of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (TMBU) here soon. The AQMS will monitor and give data on concentration of different pollutants in the air as well as some weather elements.
TMBU vice-chancellor (incharge) Ajoy Kumar Singh has sought the reasons for delay in setting up AQMS from the university officials.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between TMBU and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, in February 2017 for setting up the AQMS for supporting scientific researches in the fields of air pollution, climate monitoring and weather forecast.
Sources at the TMBU’s department of physics said AQMS was to be installed in 2017 with an estimated expenditure of Rs 1 crore. They said the project got shelved due to various administrative glitches, including unavailability of required space and lack of three-phase electricity connection.
“AQMS is equipped with various devices and gas sensors to measure the level of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone. It also measures suspended particulate matter in the air, including PM10 and PM2.5,” said Jagdhar Mandal, head of physics department.
The TMBU VC said he has sought a status report of AQMS from dean (sciences) A K Thakur and the physics department head. “We will ensure that the AQMS is established soon at TMBU,” he said.
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