Amity Centre for Nanotechnology, Amity University Gurugram organized the International Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology moderated by Prof P.B. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Amity University Gurugram. The traffic-induced criteria air pollutants and associated health risks assessment at major transport corridors in Delhi have been studied. The spatial distribution maps were developed using ArcGIS environment for eleven districts covering 36 transport corridors of the city. The study demonstrated the concentration of three out of the five ambient air pollutants, namely, NOx, PM10 and PM2.5, with highest values in the range of 294.10-362.57, 203.99-422.42 and 333.71-541.72 μg/m3, respectively, at the corridors. Corresponding National Ambient Air Quality Standard values were found to be grossly violated as reflected by NOx, PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations with 2 to 5 times higher values. Remaining two (CO and SOx) were found to be under permissible limits, and most of them exhibited low levels of observed concentrations. The ambient air quality in south, central, east, and New Delhi areas were found to be in high and moderately high necessitating adequate control measures. The study reported a total of 281107, 20791, 31636 expected cases of human exposure to respiratory mortality, cardiovascular mortality, total mortality whereas 281107 and 71608 number of cases were reported in relation to respiratory morbidity in terms of COPD hospital admission and Cardiovascular morbidity (hospital admissions) along the transport corridors subject to investigation.
The following papers have been presented at the online ESDA conference held during 5-6 June 2020.
(a) Carbonaceous Aerosol Characterization over Different Environments During COVID 19 Lockdown
- Sunil M. Sonbawne and P.C.S. Devara
(b) Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Inferences from In-situ Measurements made at AUH, Gurugram
- P.C.S. Devara, A. Kumar, Pritam B. Sharma, Padmakali Banerjee, A.A. Khan, A. Tripathi, S. Tiwari and G. Beig
(c) Columnar Aerosol, Ozone and Precipitable Water Content Distributions over AUH During Lockdown due to COVID-19
- A. A. Khan, A. Tripathi, P.C.S. Devara and A. K. Srivastava
(d) Nursing of Air Quality During COVID-19 Lockdown using Wavelength-Integrating Polar Nephelometer
- D.B. Priyanka, P.C.S. Devara, A.A. Khan, S. Jain and N. D. Sasso
(e) Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Events on Air Quality During COVID 19 Lockdown
- S. Tiwari, P.C.S. Devara, A. Kumar, Pritam B. Sharma, and G. Beig (Paper bagged 3rd Prize)
(f) Heat wave conditions over India during 2016-2018
- A. Tripathi, A.K. Mishra, P.V.S. Raju and P.C.S. Devara (Paper bagged 3rd Prize)