ANALYSIS OF SEASONAL AND ANNUAL TRENDS OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE AS AIR POLLUTANT IN BAREILLY CITY

Abstract

According to a report published by Green Peace (2018), Bareilly city has been reported as one of the most seven polluted cities. Bareilly city do not have too much of industrialization but poor environmental management by the citizens and administration worsen the air quality during Diwali festival. Air monitoring of gaseous pollutant (sulphur dioxide) was done at Bareilly city as per CPCB guidelines from three monitoring stations (A, B and C) for a period of two years (2019-2020). During pre-monsoon season of 2019 all station reported SO values below the specified limits 2 of 60μg/m but station A reported values on the higher side. When lockdown was imposed in March 2020 due to the outbreak of novel corona virus in India and there was significant cut down in SO . While conducting the two-way ANOVA test for SO 2 2 during both pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons from three stations at Bareilly in 2019, it was found that F>F and p-value<0.05. This paper focuses on the monitoring, crit. analysis and interpretation of SO at Bareilly city. 2 3 ANALYSIS OF SEASONAL AND ANNUAL TRENDS OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE AS AIR POLLUTANT IN BAREILLY CITY Received on: 31.08.2021 Revised on: 29.09.2021 Accepted on: 30.09.2021