Research Reports

Strengthening Pollution Control Boards to achieve the National Ambient Air Quality Standards in India

A study report titled, “ Strengthening Pollution Control Boards to achieve the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in India “.

• The aim of this project was to understand the institutional and informational barriers that are hampering the goal of achieving the NAAQS across the country and provide recommendations to address those.
• Primary research for this study was conducted in purposively selected sample cities in states
• across the country (Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Goa and Mumbai) which were geographically distributed based on a number of criteria.
  Our findings reveal several key structural and institutional barriers that are affecting effective implementation of existing regulations, and thereby broader achievement of ambient air quality standards.