The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) is all set to mount air purifiers on the roofs of its buses to curb the pollution.
This development comes in the wake of Mumbai’s worsening air quality, which was recorded in the moderate category at 145 as on Friday morning, November 17.
Meanwhile, on the same day, Mumbai's temperature was recorded at 23.6 degrees Celsius while the humidity was 72 per cent.
Initially, 350 buses will have the filters and the cost of each filter is around INR 50,000.
The first phase of the project will be implemented by the end of December and the fund for purchasing these units is being acquired through CSR.
The buses will act as mobile air purifiers by having filtration units affixed on top of the vehicles. These filters will suck in the polluted air and clean the suspended particulate matter from the air, thus channelling out a better quality of air.
These filters will be able to clean up to 15,000 cubic metres of air per hour and will be able to capture 12-15 grams of suspended particulate matter. These filters will operate on velocity and will not require any additional power source.
If this method proves to be successful then more buses will be fitted with such filters, officials stated.
With this, the officials also hope to bring down emission levels the help of these purifiers in traffic junctions.
Civic officials said that the primary source of air pollution in Mumbai is vehicular emission. As a result, these buses will act as a mobile filtration van which will cleanse the dust particles while it is on the move.
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