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A diverse nation and a developing economy like India, faces colossal difficulties with its expanding population and across the board destitution, in meeting its different other huge duties related with poverty, and eradication of hunger under the SDGs. For past three decades, India has been experiencing a period of quickened economic development, and associated urbanization and specifically intra migration related development has increased complexity of pollution issue. Especially Air pollution has remained a subject of concern and gained attention only in big cities but its high time now to highlight the fact that air pollution knows no boundaries and health of small city- people who are equally the citizens of this country is nowhere less meaningful then the metropolitans. When constitution gives right to breath fresh and clean air as a fundamental right, and resulting health hazards are being alarmed by WHO now and then, then considering the small cities is the need of the hour for achieving a holistic growth in mitigation plans.
The study focuses on understanding the air quality of Lucknow and uses statistical tools like proportion test, Normality tests and Mann-Whitneys test using Minitab software to state the results with significance. A comparison between air quality of megacity like Delhi and a scale two city like Lucknow is drawn to highlight the need of attention towards non-attainment cities other than metropolitans as well. The physical reconnaissance survey is conducted in the city to capture the nature of emission activities and use data to generate heatmaps using QGIS software. The survey result helped in assessing the Lucknow’s clean air action plan. At several location in the city even short-term action points were captured violating. The idea with the study is to identify air pollution hotspots for establishment of sensors and strengthening of monitoring network in the city that can provide a baseline for further research and policy discussions specific to such small cities, which have been neglected for years and with the implementation of NCAP in 107 non-attainment cities, city specific action plans need to be customised.
Keywords: air quality, reconnaissance survey, non-attainment city, Minitab, QGIS, air pollution hotspots, NCAP
