It is considered that the 21st century will be the Indian century. However, India as a nation faces enormous challenges on its path to further development. While the increased industries, smart city development, and better infrastructure improved the standard of living of the people. Urbanization and industrialization also increased the pollution crisis. According to the World Air Quality Report, six out of ten most polluted cities in the world were from India. This becomes a serious concern given the adverse health effects of air pollution. However, the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) 2019 addressed the rising concern of poor air quality with the goal of a 30% reduction in particulate pollution by the year 2024.

One of the key components of the NCAP is to increase the existing ambient air monitoring network. Air quality was monitored only using manual and continuous monitoring stations in the previous action plans such as the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP). However, In NCAP low-cost air quality sensors were for the first time officially mentioned as a possible alternative monitoring technology. The advantages of low-cost air quality monitoring devices such as Oizom’s PolludroneTM and DustroidTM can be found here.