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On Monday 23rd August, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated India's first smog tower in Delhi's Connaught Place that will purify 1,000 cubic metres of air per second within a radius of around 1 km.
Kejriwal added that the tower has been set as a pilot project and initial trends will be available within a month. If the pilot project is successful, more smog towers will be installed in the national captial.
"Smog towers can be raised in other parts of the city as well if a pilot study conducted on the new one set up at Connaught Place provides favourable results" said Kejriwal.
The tower is located behind the Shivaji Stadium metro station in Connaught Place and is raised at a height of 24.2 metres. According to reports, the total cost of project is around Rs 20 Crore.
A total of 40 fans have been installed at the bottom of the tower. Air will be sucked in from the top of the tower. It will then be filtered and released through the fans at the bottom. Trends from the pilot study could be available in around a month, explained Kejriwal.
The two year pilot study will be carried out by IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay. The two institutions are said to be the technical advisors for the project.
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