Delhi to Sign MoU for AI-driven air pollution monitoring, management

The Delhi government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the AIRAWAT Research Foundation (ARF) and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur to explore and enable AI-based technologies for air quality monitoring, analysis and decision-making in Delhi. The MoU aims to create a collaborative framework between the Delhi Environment Department and ARF for designing, developing and operationalising AI-driven, sensor-enabled and analytics-based systems to monitor, manage and reduce air pollution in the city, with focus on hyper-local monitoring, predictive forecasting, source attribution, decision-support systems, policy support and capacity building. Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said there is no financial commitment from the Department at the MoU stage and that the collaboration is primarily a knowledge partnership to study the potential of AI-based air quality technologies developed by ARF. He emphasized that the initiative is meant to strengthen institutional capacity and ensure pollution response is data-driven, guided by science and supported by coordination, aiming for cleaner air and healthier citizens.