Air high quality in Kerala within the vary satisfactory-good: State Pollution Control Board report

Kerala’s ambient air high quality is presently within the vary ‘satisfactory-good’, based on a report ready by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB).

The inferences had been gathered based mostly on the info gathered from the air high quality monitoring community comprising 40 guide and 9 steady ambient monitoring stations within the State.

The report dated September 1, 2025 was submitted earlier than the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) within the case pertaining to the ambient air high quality in Kerala.

State Action Plan

It acknowledged that steps have been initiated to implement a complete State Action Plan on Air Quality with needed steerage from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and as per the instructions issued by the tribunal. As per the report, there are not any critically-polluted areas within the State.

The board claimed that numerous measures have been taken by industries to minimise Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from storage, transport, and effluent dealing with amenities. It included double seal floating roofs to make sure low vapourisation and a 3rd celebration monitoring system accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) lab to make sure that emission and ambient situations are effectively throughout the prescribed limits.

The board mentioned that 40 industrial models have established Online Continuous Emission Monitoring System (OCEMS) connectivity as mandated by the Central Pollution Control Board. Of this, 13 come underneath the class of highly-polluting industries.

The State Environment Department has entrusted The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) to conduct a supply apportionment examine in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram as a part of figuring out sources of air pollution within the ambient air within the two cities. As per the NGT route, the price of the examine needs to be met by the State authorities, CPCB and the KSPCB within the ration of fifty:30:20 respectively.