Robotic sweeper to clean Howrah's air
HOWRAH:
Residents of Howrah, Bengal's most polluted town, can now hope to
breathe easy. A robotic machine will soon be deployed to cleanse, or at
least significantly reduce, particulate matter clogging the atmosphere
of the town. With technical guidance from IIEST, the Howrah Municipal
Corporation (HMC) will launch a pilot project, deploying a robotic
sweeper collector (RSC), with a suction machine attached. If successful,
two more such machines will be deployed in Howrah, where a large number
of people suffer from respiratory and related ailments owing to the
dense smog that envelops the air here.
"When the Trinamool board was formed in Howrah two years ago, CM Mamata Banerjee directed us to make Howrah clean and green. For a long time, we have been in search of a technology to cleanse Howrah's atmosphere and provide relief to the people. We have at last found this RSC, which we will be introduced next week," HMC mayor Rathin Chakraborty said.
The machine, demonstrated before the mayor by NGO Life Seed Foundation, will work from 11pm to 5am. The suction device of the sweeper, operated by a technically trained driver, can take in suspended particulate matter (SPM) along 5km stretch every hour. The machine can solidify the particulate matters and deposit it into HMC's garbage-collecting machines that will eventually be emptied in the dump yards.
Doctors and environmentalists pointed out that Howrah was by far the most polluted town in Bengal. "Though there is no official estimate of SPM in the town, it can easily be said it is at a dangerously high level, even on our campus," said Ajoy Ray , director of IIEST, which will technically aid the nightlong operations. "Experts from our environmental engineering department will be by the HMC's side.
"When the Trinamool board was formed in Howrah two years ago, CM Mamata Banerjee directed us to make Howrah clean and green. For a long time, we have been in search of a technology to cleanse Howrah's atmosphere and provide relief to the people. We have at last found this RSC, which we will be introduced next week," HMC mayor Rathin Chakraborty said.
The machine, demonstrated before the mayor by NGO Life Seed Foundation, will work from 11pm to 5am. The suction device of the sweeper, operated by a technically trained driver, can take in suspended particulate matter (SPM) along 5km stretch every hour. The machine can solidify the particulate matters and deposit it into HMC's garbage-collecting machines that will eventually be emptied in the dump yards.
Doctors and environmentalists pointed out that Howrah was by far the most polluted town in Bengal. "Though there is no official estimate of SPM in the town, it can easily be said it is at a dangerously high level, even on our campus," said Ajoy Ray , director of IIEST, which will technically aid the nightlong operations. "Experts from our environmental engineering department will be by the HMC's side.
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