New Delhi, April 26 -- Last week, Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced that the government will add six new continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS), adding to the Capital's 40 station-strong grid that acts as the backbone of the city's pollution monitoring mechanism.
But three of the new stations are proposed to be inside lush-green campuses - Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in south Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in south Delhi and Netaji Subhash University (West Campus) in west Delhi, one more deep inside the Central Ridge at the ISRO Earth station near Malcha Mahal - and two more in relatively green areas, Delhi cantonment and the Commonwealth Games Sports Complex in eas...