The saviour of Taj Mahal: Air Purifier

The beauty of Taj Mahal surpassed a lot of monuments in the world. A marvellous monument and one of the seven wonders of the world is losing its beauty. Pollution in Agra city has been a concern for a long time as it is severely damaging the Taj Mahal. 

Since North India is battling with Air Pollution, state authorities have deployed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to save it. It has been deployed by Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board(UPPCB). It has the capacity to purify 15 lakh cubic metre air in 8 hours with 300-metre radius. “Looking at the developing situation and consistent deterioration in air quality, a mobile air purifier van has been deployed at the west gate of the Taj Mahal,” Regional Officer of UPPCB Bhuvan Yadav.

The district administration, Agra Nagar Nigam and UPPCB collaborated with telecom operator Vodafone-Idea, as a part of corporate social responsibility to bring in two air purifier vans to the city to control pollution. The van arrived Agra on October 24th. Realizing its need around the monument, one was placed near it.

As of now, there is no continuous air monitoring station around the taj mahal to help calculate the AQI so the magnitude of how much air has been purified cannot be determined. There is a monitoring station at Sanjay Palace which showed an AQI of 293. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, an AQI between 201-300 is considered poor. Due to the increase in pollution health emergency has been declared in Delhi.