LUCKNOW: After TOI highlighted how the efforts made by the
Lucknow Municipal Corporation
to check
air
pollution are producing desired results, the civic body on Sunday launched a special drive to improve air quality of the city.
Mayor
Sanyukta Bhatia
and municipal commissioner
Ajay Dwivedi
flagged off eight anti-smog sprinklers, 40 tractor-mounted water sprinklers and eight mechanical sweeping machines from the 1090 Crossing. These machines will sprinkle water to clear air and settle the dust on the roads, besides cleaning the streets in a mechanised manner.
LMC
staff will also be deployed to make people aware about measures to be taken to improve air quality.
TOI had highlighted earlier that LMC has only eight trucks for sprinkling water on roads and five for antismog spray.
These vehicles cover around 80-85 km of road networks daily. However, LMC has 236 km of road network in the city, of which a large number are in bad shape and hence the measures taken by the civic body are proving to be insufficient.
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