BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB)
is planning to install an online real time monitoring system to
check air pollution in 15 districts across the state in a phased
manner.The initiative is aimed at identifying and mitigating
pollution levels across the state, said Karnataka State
Pollution Control Board Chairman A S Sadashiviah. He said, "For
the installation of equipment, we are finalising the districts
based on the pollution level. In the first phase we will be
installing the systems at Bellary, Mangalore, Chitradurga,
Belgaum, Gulbarga, Mysore and Tumkur.""The other districts will
be finalised later and taken up in the second and third phases
depending on the requirement," explained."This system will be in
the lines of the two similar systems which are currently
functioning at the city railway station and Basveswaranagar at
Bangalore," he added.Speaking about the working of the system,
Sadashivaiah said, "Analysers for major pollutants like sulphur
dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide