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XNew Delhi: A Parliamentary panel on Friday asked the Centre to come up with the updated India’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards “at the earliest”, noting that the standards were last revised in 2009.

In a report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change also recommended that all manual

stations in Delhi-NCR be upgraded to continuous ambient air quality monitoring systems.

It observed that the current distribution of air quality monitoring stations in Delhi is “heavily skewed” towards central and southern parts of the city, which are relatively less populated, greener and more affluent.

The committee said this geographical bias leads to “a distorted and non

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