i-manager Publications

Impact of Covid-19 Induced Lockdown on the Air Quality in the Southern Key Regions of India

M. Abisha Meji *, Milon Selvam Dennison**, M. Mobisha ***, Malik Mohamed Umar****

* Department of Physical Science, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Uganda.

** Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Uganda.

*** Bethlahem College of Education, Tamilnadu, India.

**** Department of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Uganda.

Periodicity:November - January'2021
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.16.2.17620

World Health Organization : COVID-19 - Global literature on coronavirus disease

https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-1311496

ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1311496

Abstract

The ongoing global pandemic caused by the novel virus '2019-nCoV' made the people around the world remain in their residence for months due to continuous lockdown. As a result of this continuous lockdown, the global economic performance is poor and India is not exempted from this. In India, the government imposed lockdown in late March 2020 and still it is prolonging in phases. Even though this continuous lockdown is announced for restraining the spread rate of the COVID-19 virus, this process disrupted routine lives of people and caused income loss. But these forced restrictions resulted in reduced air pollution around the country. This article focuses on the major air pollutants such as PM_2.5, PM₁₀, and CO in the southern key regions of India located in Chennai, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam during the period 1^stApril 2020 to 31^st July 2020 and interesting results revealed from this study.

Keywords

Lockdown, COVID-19, India, Air Pollution, Air Pollutants.

How to Cite this Article?

Meji, M. A., Dennison. M. S., Mobisha, M., and Umar, M. M. (2021). Impact of Covid-19 Induced Lockdown on the Air Quality in the Southern Key Regions of India. i-manager's Journal on Future Engineering and Technology, 16(2), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.16.2.17620

References

[1]. Aydin, H., & Ilkiliç, C. (2017). Air pollution, pollutant emissions and harmfull effects. Journal of Engineering and Technology, 1(1), 8-15.

[2]. Chauhan, A., & Singh, R. P. (2020). Decline in PM 2.5 concentrations over major cities around the world associated with COVID-19. Environmental Research, 187.

[3]. Cope, R. B. (2020). Carbon monoxide: Can't see, can't smell, body looks red but they are dead. In Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents (pp. 353-371). Academic Press.

[4]. CPCB. (n.d.). Central Control Room for Air Quality Management - All India. Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. Retrieved from https://app.cpcbccr. com/ccr/#/caaqm-dashboard-all/caaqm-landing/ caaqm-comparison-data

[5]. Datta, A. (2018). Pride and shame in the city: Young people's experiences of rural–urban migration in India. Children's Geographies, 16(6), 654-665.

[6]. ESA. (2020, April 24). Air pollution drops in India following lockdown. European Space Agency. Retrieved from https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_ Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_drops_in_India _following_lockdown

[7]. Garg, V., Aggarwal, S. P., & Chauhan, P. (2020). Changes in turbidity along Ganga river using Sentinel-2 satellite data during lockdown associated with COVID-19. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 11(1), 1175-1195.

[8]. Gautam, S. (2020a). COVID-19: Air pollution remains low as people stay at home. Air Quality, Atmosphere, & Health, 13, 853-857. Retrived from https://dx.doi.org/10.10 07%2Fs11869-020-00842-6

[9]. Gautam, S. (2020b). The influence of COVID-19 on air quality in India: A boon or inutile. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 104(6), 724-726. https:// doi.org/10.1007/s00128-020-02877-y

[10]. Gupta, N., Tomar, A., & Kumar, V. (2020). The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India. Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 6 (Special Issue (Covid-19)), 31-40.

[11]. Health Effects Institute. (2020). State of Global Air 2020. Data source: Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. IHME, 2020. Retrieved from https://www.stateofglobalair. org/data/#/health/plot

[12]. Jain, S., & Sharma, T. (2020). Social and travel lockdown impact considering coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) on air quality in megacities of India: Present benefits, future challenges and way forward. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 20(6), 1222-1236.

[13]. Kaplan, G., Avdan, Z. Y., & Avdan, U. (2019). Spaceborne Nitrogen Dioxide observations from the Sentinel-5P TROPOMI over Turkey. In Multi disciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ECRS-3-06181

[14]. Kotnala, G., Mandal, T. K., Sharma, S. K., & Kotnala, R. K. (2020). Emergence of blue sky over Delhi due to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) lockdown implications. Aerosol Science and Engineering, 4, 228-238.

[15]. Kumar, P., Hama, S., Omidvarborna, H., Sharma, A., Sahani, J., Abhijith, K. V., ... & Tiwari, A. (2020). Temporary reduction in fine particulate matter due to 'anthropogenic emissions switch-off' during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian cities. Sustainable Cities and Society, 62, 1-21. https://doi.or g/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102382

[16]. Kumar, P., Patton, A. P., Durant, J. L., & Frey, H. C. (2018). A review of factors impacting exposure to PM2. 5, ultrafine particles and black carbon in Asian transport microenvironments. Atmospheric Environment, 187, 301-316.

[17]. Kumar, S. (2020). Effect of meteorological parameters on spread of COVID-19 in India and air quality during lockdown. Science of the Total Environment, 745, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141021

[18]. Kumari, P., & Toshniwal, D. (2020). Impact of lockdown measures during COVID-19 on air quality: A case study of India. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2020.17786 46

[19]. Mahato, S., Pal, S., & Ghosh, K. G. (2020). Effect of lockdown amid COVID-19 pandemic on air quality of the megacity Delhi, India. Science of the Total Environment, 730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139086

[20]. Muhammad, S., Long, X., & Salman, M. (2020). COVID-19 pandemic and environmental pollution: A blessing in disguise? Science of the Total Environment, 728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138820

[21]. Paital, B., Das, K., & Parida, S. K. (2020). Inter nation social lockdown versus medical care against COVID-19, a mild environmental insight with special reference to India. Science of the Total Environment, 728. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138914

[22]. Patel, P. P., Mondal, S., & Ghosh, K. G. (2020). Some respite for India's dirtiest river? Examining the Yamuna's water quality at Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Science of the Total Environment, 744. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140851

[23]. Patni, K., & Jindal, M. K. (2020). A positive perspective during COVID-19 related to groundwater crisis. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 11.

[24]. Ranjan, A. K., Patra, A. K., & Gorai, A. K. (2020). Effect of lockdown due to SARS COVID-19 on aerosol optical depth (AOD) over urban and mining regions in India. Science of the Total Environment, 745.

[25]. Sarfraz, M., Shehzad, K., & Shah, S. G. M. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 as a necessary evil on air pollution in India during the lockdown. Environmental Pollution, 266.

[26]. Schulze, F., Gao, X., Virzonis, D., Damiati, S., Schneider, M. R., & Kodzius, R. (2017). Air quality effects on human health and approaches for its assessment through microfluidic chips. Genes, 8(10).

[27]. Sengupta, S., & Jha, M. K. (2020). Social policy, COVID-19 and impoverished migrants: Challenges and prospects in locked down India. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 2(2), 152-172.

[28]. Sharma, M., Jain, S., & Lamba, B. Y. (2020a). Epigrammatic study on the effect of lockdown amid Covid-19 pandemic on air quality of most polluted cities of Rajasthan (India). Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 13(10), 1157-1165.

[29]. Sharma, S., Zhang, M., Gao, J., Zhang, H., & Kota, S. H. (2020b). Effect of restricted emissions during COVID-19 on air quality in India. Science of the Total Environment, 728.

[30]. Sikarwar, A., & Chattopadhyay, A. (2020). Environmental challenges in seven cities: Interlinkages. In Analyzing Population and Land Use Change (pp. 51-63). Singapore: Springer.

[31]. Sikarwar, A., & Rani, R. (2020). Assessing the immediate effect of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality: A case study of Delhi, India. Research Square.

[32]. Singh, R. P., & Chauhan, A. (2020). Impact of lockdown on air quality in India during COVID-19 pandemic. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 13(8), 921- 928.

[33]. Srivastava, S., Kumar, A., Bauddh, K., Gautam, A. S., & Kumar, S. (2020). 21-Day lockdown in India dramatically reduced air pollution indices in Lucknow and New Delhi, India. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 105, 9-17.

[34]. Yunus, A. P., Masago, Y., & Hijioka, Y. (2020). COVID-19 and surface water quality: Improved lake water quality during the lockdown. Science of the Total Environment, 731.

If you have access to this article please login to view the article or kindly login to purchase the article

Single Article

	North Americas,UK, Middle East,Europe		India	Rest of world
	USD	EUR	INR	USD-ROW
Online	15	15

ADD TO CART

Options for accessing this content:

If you would like institutional access to this content, please recommend the title to your librarian.
If you already have i-manager's user account: Login above and proceed to purchase the article.
New Users: Please register, then proceed to purchase the article.