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National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP)

Monitoring Network

  • Frequency and Parameters Monitored
Under N.A.M.P., four air pollutants viz., Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Oxides of Nitrogen as NO2 and Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM/PM10), have been identified for regular monitoring at all the locations. The monitoring of meteorological parameters such as wind speed and direction, relative humidity and temperature was also integrated with the monitoring of air quality. The monitoring of pollutants is carried out for 24 hours (4-hourly sampling for gaseous pollutants and 8-hourly sampling for particulate matter) with a frequency of twice a week, to have 104 observations in a year.
  • Number of Monitoring Stations
There are 308 operating stations in 115 cities/towns in 25 states and 4 Union Territories of the country. Table 1 provides state-wise and city-wise number of operating monitoring stations.
  • Monitoring Agencies
The monitoring is being carried out with the help of Central Pollution Control Board:; State Pollution Control Boards :Pollution Control Committees; National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur.. CPCB co-ordinates with these agencies to ensure the uniformity, consistency of air quality data and provides technical and financial support to them for operating the monitoring station. N.A.M.P. is being operated through various monitoring agencies, large number of personnel and equipment are involved in the sampling, chemical analyses, data reporting etc. It increases the probability of variation and personnel biases reflecting in the data, hence it is pertinent to mention that these data be treated as indicative rather than absolute.

Table 1: Operating Stations under National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP).

S.no

State/Union Territory

City

Number of Operating Monitoring Station

1

Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad

9

Visakhapatnam

5

Tirupati

1

Vijayawada

2

Kurnool

1

2

Assam

Bongaigaon

2

Gawahati

3

3

Bihar

Patna

2

4

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

5

5

Chattisgarh

Korba

3

Bhilai

3

Raipur

3

6

Delhi

Delhi

10

7

Daman Diu & Nagar Haveli

Daman Diu & Nagar Haveli

4

8

Goa

Ponda

1

Vasco

1

Mormugao

1

9

Gujarat

Ahmedabad

8

Ankaleshwar

2

Jamnagar

1

Rajkot

1

Surat

3

Vadodara

4

Vapi

2

10

Haryana

Faridabad

2

Hissar

2

Yamuna Nagar

1

11

Himachal Pradesh

Damtal

2

Parwanoo

2

Poanta Sahib

2

Shimla

2

Kala Amb

1

Baddi-Barotiwala

1

12

Jammu& Kashmir

Jammu

2

13

Jharkand

Dhanbad

1

Jharia

1

Sindri

1

Jamshedpur

2

Ranchi

1

14

Karnataka

Bangalore

6

Dharwar, Hubli

2

Mangalore

1

Hassan

1

Mysore

2

Gulbarga

1

Belgaum

1

15

Kerala

Kozhikode

2

Kottayam

2

Cochin

3

Thiruvanantapuram

4

Palakkad

1

16

Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal

4

Indore

3

Jabalpur

1

Nagda

3

Gwalior

2

Sagar

2

Satna

2

Singrauli

3

Ujjain

3

17

Maharashtra

Aurangabad

3

Lote

2

Tarapur

3

Kolhapur

3

Mumbai

3

Ambernath

2

Chandrapur

3

Nagpur

6

Nasik

3

Solapur

2

Pune

3

Thane

3

18

Meghalaya

Shillong

2

19

Mizoram

Aizwal

3

20

Nagaland

Dimapur

2

21

Orissa

Rayagada

2

Rourkela

2

Talcher

2

Angul

2

Bhubaneshwar

1

Cuttack

1

Sambalpur

1

Berhampur

1

22

Punjab

Gobindgarh

3

Jalandhar

4

Ludhiana

4

Naya Nangal

2

Khanna

2

23

Pondicherry

Pondicherry

3

24

Rajasthan

Alwar

3

Jaipur

6

Jodhpur

3

Kota

3

Udaipur

3

25

Sikkim

Gangtok

2

26

Tamilnadu

Chennai

6

Tuticorin

3

Coimbatore

3

Madurai

3

Salem

1

27

Uttar Pradesh

Agra

5

Anpara

2

Firozabad

2

Gajroula

2

Ghaziabad

2

Kanpur

6

Lucknow

5

Noida

2

Varanasi

2

28

Uttaranchal

Dehradun

1

29

West Bengal

Kolkata

10

Durgapur

3

Haldia

3

Howrah

4

Asansol

1
   

Total

308