India’s largest iron ore producer NMDC flagged off a Mobile Environment Lab, meant for Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB), from its head office in Hyderabad on October 27.
A first-of-its-kind, according to NMDC, the lab will enable real time monitoring of ambient air quality in the industrial clusters of Chhattisgarh. With a Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station mounted on the vehicle and six portable CAAQMS, the vehicle is set to constantly monitor pollution and help in immediately responding to complaints.
The state-of-the-art vehicle, which will be handed over to CECB in Raipur on November 1, is equipped with water and waste-water quality analyses systems. The facility will bring water stewardship and also record ambient noise quality from the industrial belts of Chhattisgarh, NMDC said in a release on the flagging off of the vehicle by CMD (additional charge) Amitava Mukherjee, Director (Commercial) V. Suresh, Director (Technical) Vinay Kumar and CVO B. Vishwanath.
