Amritsar Smart City Limited and CEEW launch electric autorickshaw pilot for green transition

A pilot programme to enable Amritsar's transition to electric autos was launched on 10 February 2024. The initiative was flagged off by Shri Harpreet Singh, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Amritsar. This pilot project will provide approximately 300 diesel auto drivers with first-hand experience of e-autos over the course of three months, and is a part of ASCL’s RAAHI project, aimed at transitioning the city’s existing diesel autorickshaw fleet to electric to increase incomes, mitigate air pollution, and help the city go green. The pilot is a behaviour change intervention to nudge this electric transition. The event also saw the launch of ‘Sadak Ke Sartaj’, a locally-led, multi-media awareness campaign that positions ‘pradhans’ (regional union leaders) as change leaders of this transition.

Vital Strategies and National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) develop standard operating procedures for health sector engagement in AQ management

Vital Strategies and NCDC have led the development of standard operating procedures - user manuals - web portal and mobile application for the National Outdoor Air Disease Surveillance (NOADS) platform. NOADS is a web enabled surveillance system being used by health representatives across the country to register patients with different disease conditions linked to air pollution related illness from selected surveillance sites. CABH project is also providing technical assistance to the state health teams in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar to activate reporting on air pollution related illnesses from 14 sentinel surveillance sites, as well as to the NCDC to support the ongoing efforts of the National Program for Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH), India in air quality and health sector.