Delhi govt to get vacuum cleaning road machines

November 06, 2016 17:43

As city's pollution levels worsened, the Delhi government has decided to procure 15 to 20 vacuum cleaning road machines on an immediate basis aimed at bringing down dust particles in the air.

The government has floated short-term tenders to procure such machines to immediately find a solution to the increasing dust pollution in the capital.

The report of the IIT-Kanpur study titled 'Source Apportionment Study of PM2.5 and PM10' had recently identified dust and trucks as the largest contributors behind Delhi's polluted air.

"Public Works Department is expecting to hire about 15 to 20 mechanical dust road sweepers through short-term tender process. Such machines will be hired till March next year.

"Besides, government has also planned to have long-term tenders to hire vacuum cleaning machines so that there is a permanent solution to deal with dust pollution," sources said.

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