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CO2 monitoring station set
up in Pondy
PUDUCHERRY: “It is a
moment of great pride for Puducherry to become
the third state to install a CO2 monitoring
station, a national facility in India after
Hanle village in Ladakh and Cape Rama on the
west coast,” said A R Upadhya, director of the
Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer
Simulation (C-MMACS), a unit of Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Stressing on the importance of a monitoring
station, he said: “Due to the lack of monitoring
stations in Asia, the level of uncertainty was
very high as no data was available to study the
impact of green house gases on global climate
relating to India. However, in the European
countries, the network of monitoring stations
was very high. Emission of CO2 had been very
high in Asia. Though our per capita was low, the
emission was high in India due to the large
population.” He added that at present the
collected air samples were being sent to France
for analysis as it was important that we have a
highly accurate CO2 analyser and that C-MMACS
had plans of starting its own measuring station
in Pune soon . The CO2 monitoring station will
collect the air flowing from the land and also
from the sea in different seasons depending upon
the direction of the wind blowing in that area.
Also, by virtue of the Pondicherry University’s
location, it was possible to collect air samples
from both land and sea in a pure form as it
would not have been contaminated by emissions
emanating from the urban areas.
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The
monitoring station will be installed in the
university campus with funding from the
department of science and technology, government
of India. Also, N K Indira, ccientist, C-MMACS
will be co-ordinating with Pondicherry
University and the collected sample will be
utilized by both the university for academic
purposes and the C-MMACS for research and
analysis. Pondicherry Univeristy vice-chancellor
J A K Tareen said: “Pondicherry University is
entering a new era of advanced research by
achieving growth through interaction. And to
achieve this, we have gone on an MoU signing
spree with premier institutions such as C-MMACS.
The university has been growing not only in the
number of students but the faculty has also
grown with 174 teachers having been appointed in
the past two and a half years and a 100 more
slated to join.” Later, an MoU to that effect
was signed between C-MMACS and the Pondicherry
University
