National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP)

Central Pollution Control Board is executing a nation-wide programme of ambient air quality monitoring known as National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP). The network consist of 308 operating stations covering 115 cities/towns in 25 States and 4 Union Territories of the country.

The objectives of the N.A.M.P. are

• To determine status and trends of ambient air quality;

• To ascertain whether the prescribed ambient air quality standards are violated,

• To Identify Non-attainment Cities

• To obtain the knowledge and understanding necessary for developing preventive and corrective measures;

• To understand the natural cleansing process undergoing in the environment through pollution dilution, dispersion, wind based movement, dry deposition, precipitation and chemical transformation of pollutants generated.