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Uttar Pradesh's First Pollution Control Tower

Recently, installation of an Air Pollution Control Tower (APCT) has been approved on DND Expressway to control air pollution in the Noida region.
- This work has been done with the help of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).

According to the official information, this air pollution control tower in the green belt of DND Expressway near Sector 16 (A) Filmcity of Noida will be installed and operated as a pilot project within the next two months.
The base of this Air Pollution Control Tower (APCT) will have a diameter of about 4.50 meters and a height of about 20 meters.
At present, this tower is being constructed at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited's Haridwar plant and for its installation, about 400 square meters of space has been provided by the authority temporarily.
With the installation of this tower, the area of about one square kilometer and the air quality of DND and Greater Noida-Noida Expressway will improve.
An expenditure of about 37 lakh rupees has been estimated per year in the operation of this tower, 50% of which will be borne by the Noida Authority.
A tower of this type has been set up in Delhi's Connaught Place in August 2021, but this will be the first air pollution control tower in Uttar Pradesh.

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On October 3, 2021, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the City Gas Station of Torrent Gas at Khanipur in Gorakhpur district.

In the first phase of the City Gas Distribution (CGD) network Piped Natural Gas (PNG) will be supplied to 101 domestic connections and 1 industrial connection.
On this occasion, he inaugurated 8 CNG stations and 13 PSA Oxygen Plants and also presented certificates of connection of domestic piped natural gas to 5 women.
It is worth mentioning that PNG is cheaper as compared to LPG cylinder and also has an economic saving of 35 to 40 percent.
Torrent Gas has been given a target to provide connections to 10,000 families in Gorakhpur city by the month of March.
This gas company has taken forward the process of supplying PNG to district Gorakhpur as well as to district Kushinagar and Sant Kabir Nagar.
- The program of PNG gas supply is being taken forward in 15 districts of the state.
The central government has provided 127 oxygen plants to the state. Also, Torrent Gas Company is setting up 13 oxygen plants in the state.
In this way, a total of 547 oxygen plants are being set up in the state, out of which about 490 oxygen plants have been prepared.

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Recently, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath released the book 'Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past' written by Vikram Sampat.

In this book, Sampath has made an innovative effort to show the personality and creativity of Veer Savarkar as a serious scholar on the basis of research and factual documents by going to different countries of the world and working tirelessly.
In this book the biography of Veer Savarkar has been published in the light of facts and documents.
It is noteworthy that Veer Savarkar was rich in multifaceted talent and personality. Along with being a leader in the freedom movement, he made important contributions in promoting journalism, philosophy, literature, history, untouchability, social reform and scientific approach.
Veer Savarkar in his book '1857 Ka Swatantraya Samar' had described the bravery of 1857 as the first attempt of the country's freedom struggle. This book inspired many revolutionaries and youth to sacrifice their lives for the nation.