Uttar Pradesh Launches Clean Air Management Authority with World Bank Support to Tackle Pollution | Lucknow News

Lucknow: The cabinet on Monday approved the constitution of the Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management Authority, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to execute the Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management project.
The cabinet approved the DPR (detailed project report) for the period of five years, from 2024-25 to 2029-30. The project will receive a loan of Rs 274,153.04 lakh from the World Bank. Additionally, the project will receive a grant of Rs 1,119 crore through carbon financing.
The cabinet approved the proposal that authorised the Chief Minister to make necessary changes as and when needed in the project.
The project aims to reduce air pollution in the state based on an airshed approach. Under this approach, various programmes will be implemented in different sectors, such as agriculture, transport, industry, animal husbandry, municipal solid waste, and others, to increase the state’s capacity to control and manage air pollution.
UP is the first state to adopt airshed-based air quality management. An airshed is an area from which a state draws its air mass. UP’s larger airshed is the entire Indo-Gangetic plain. The stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana during winters affects the quality of air in UP and other north Indian states because of the airshed.
There are two types of airsheds: the micro airshed, which exists in the near vicinity of a place, and the macro airshed, which exists over a larger area.
UP has set a target of reducing the PM2.5 level in the air to 45 micrograms per cubic metre in five years. The airshed approach may help achieve this target. PM2.5 is the ultrafine particle in the air, which is less than 2.5 microns in diameter but has severe health effects.

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