Background

Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) and Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) jointly released the emission inventory related to air pollution scenario of six cities for Jharkhand today. The report explores the various polluting sectors in cities of Ramgarh, Hazaribagh, Sahibganj, Dumka, Pakur, and Chaibasa and their share towards the particular city’s total emission load.

This study looked into different sectors and corresponding activities such as domestic, commercial, industry, construction and demolition, open burning, transportation, and road dust contributing towards air pollution. An emission inventory (EI) with a detailed estimation of emission loads from various sectors as well as their spatial distribution helps the cities and state administration in formulating clean air action plan and sectoral control strategies for air pollution mitigation.