Environment Minister Manjinder Singh on Friday (May 8, 2026) said that the government has launched the Road RADAR (Real-time Air Pollution Detection Across Roads) to strengthen on-ground monitoring and enable rapid redressal of dispersed sources of air pollution across the national capital.
As part of the programme, one field surveyor has been deployed in each of the 13 districts to systematically survey roads across Delhi and identify pollution hotspots in real time.
“Delhi’s fight for clean air must be won on the ground, lane by lane and road by road. Through Road RADAR, the government is introducing a scientific system of daily surveillance, real-time reporting and direct departmental accountability so that pollution sources are not ignored, repeated or allowed to linger,” the Minister said.
He said that the Delhi government is moving ahead with a larger mission to protect Delhi’s air through action on multiple fronts, scientific interventions, stronger monitoring, quicker response systems, and effective compliance on the ground, and this programme is an important pillar in that broader strategy.
“Using the MCD-311 mobile application, each surveyor will conduct geo-tagged field surveys and raise at least 70 geo-located, photographic pollution-related issues every day. This creates a collective daily target of around 1,000 identified issues, generating a steady and actionable stream of field intelligence for enforcement and remediation agencies,” an official statement said.
