Abstract
Mitigation of air pollution in developing countries like India has emerged as one of the challenging tasks for environmental management agencies. The status is likely to become more acute with the continued and enhanced rate of industrial expansion and the limitations of carrying capacity of the respective environmental basins. India being a developing country, end-of-pipe treatment/tail gas treatment alone is not techno-economically feasible in certain important industrial sectors. Fugitive/line sources and control emission at source is not feasible because of exorbitant costs. In the country as a whole, green belt development around the industrial/urban settlement will act as a cost effective solution for air pollution abatement. Green belt designing in an appropriate scientific manner not only reduces air pollution, but also attenuates noise pollution. This paper looks at the designing of an optimal green belt around the Victoria Memorial Monument based on ambient air quality, soil characterization, climatic condition and existing plant communities. The effectiveness of the green belt around the Victoria Memorial Monument has been assessed; and analyses of different parameters, viz. tree height ( h ), width of green belt ( X 2 ), distance of green belt from the source ( X 1 ) are shown.
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