Evaluation of air quality change of udaipur city during banned crackers deepawali (2020) and unbanned crackers deepawali (2021)

Abstract

India is a known for the land of festivals where different festivals are celebrated with great solemnity throughout the year. In India, people of all religions celebrate their festivals together, whether it is Diwali of Hindus, Eid of Muslims, Lohri of Sikhs or Christmas of Christians. All festivals in India are celebrated with joy and passion. Diwali is an important Hindu religious festival This is celebrated by the extensive burning of firecrackers which result in increasing pollution in environment. State government of Rajasthan declared strict ban on firecrackers on deepawali of year 2020 and ban was lifted on  deepawali 2021. The main focus of this study is to evaluation of air quality of smart city of Rajasthan i.e. Udaipur by comparing the concentration of  NH3 , NO2, NOx, SO2, NO during ban and unbanned crackers deepawali.   Results showed that ubstantial increasing of the pollutants.  Especially NH3  levels showed the highest i.e. 165.71% increasing  followed by  NO2, NOx, SO2, NO Respectively 76.39% , 44.33 %,40.01%, 2.25 and temperature increase by 2.08%.