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Due to the spreading of the novel coronavirus all over the world in January 2020, India underwent a lockdown for three consecutive months and thereafter a partial lockdown as and when it was necessary. In spite of several devastating effects during the lockdown, certainly, there was a positive impact on ambient air quality. This study investigated how the quality of air has improved from a pre-lockdown period to a lockdown period and further how the quality has degraded during the post-lockdown period. In this study, several air quality parameters were collected from the Central Pollution Control Board, Government of India and were plotted to analyse their impact on the environment. Two different kinds of cities such as an industrial city (Bhiwadi, Rajasthan) and a highly populated city (Delhi) were considered for the present study.
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Nayak, A., Dasgupta, T., Shiuly, A., Koner, S. (2023). Assessment of Air Quality as a Positive Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown with Reference to an Industrial City and a Populated City of India. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Das, G., De, S., Mrsic, L. (eds) Recent Trends in Intelligence Enabled Research. DoSIER 2022. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1446. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1472-2_18
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