India, Sept. 30 -- Environment minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched an "Advanced Green War Room" that will enable officials to track updates related to air pollution in Delhi 24x7, and will ensure effective implementation of the government's winter action which was announced last week.

The war room will follow a seven-point action plan which will include monitoring of pollution hotspots using drones, real-time source apportionment analysis, satellite monitoring of stubble burning, and integration of complaints received on the Green Delhi app among other things.

The war room will be handled by a team of eight-member environmental engineers headed by Nandita Moitra from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Rai said.

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