Updated On: 12 August, 2024 02:51 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
The Delhi government is setting up 32 online monitoring stations along the heavily polluted Yamuna river and its open drains to access real-time data on pollutants.

Yamuna river/ PTI
The Delhi government has initiated the process of setting up 32 online monitoring stations along the Yamuna and various open drains flowing into it to access real-time data on pollutants entering the heavily polluted river, officials said on Monday.
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has to install 32 water quality monitoring systems for online monitoring of drains and Yamuna on different parameters, including biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, total nitrogen (as nitrates and nitrites), total phosphorus, ammonia among others, The online monitoring stations (OLMS) are supposed to monitor the desired data online with a continuous data transmission facility to the server of DPCC in a 24X7 manner in exact compliance with the latest guidelines and standard operating procedures of the Central Pollution Control Board, they said.