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Fact-Check: Delhi’s new smog tower is not India’s first smog tower

DFRAC Editor August 26, 2021 2 min read

On August 23, 2021, Delhi Government inaugurated what they claimed to be ‘India’s first smog tower’.

The inauguration was attended by CM of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal who also cut the ribbon on the tower. The project has cost 20 crore and is an almost 8 storey structure located in Connaught Place. The smog tower is supposed to help clean the air up to a radius of 1 km. It is a pilot study, the impact of which will be assessed over a period of 2 years by IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.

बधाई दिल्ली। प्रदूषण के ख़िलाफ़ युद्ध में दिल्ली में देश के पहले स्मॉग टावर की शुरुआत की। अमेरिकी तकनीक से बना ये स्मॉग टावर हवा में प्रदूषण की मात्रा को कम करेगा।

पायलट आधार पर शुरू हुए इस प्रोजेक्ट के नतीजे बेहतर रहे तो पूरी दिल्ली में ऐसे और स्मॉग टावर लगाए जाएंगे। pic.twitter.com/gqgh0MzyuJ

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 23, 2021
Arvind Kejriwal’s Tweet claiming the new smog tower to be India’s First Smog Tower

India's first Smog Tower READY! 🇮🇳🤩

CM @ArvindKejriwal has reached Connaught Place to inaugurate it!#DelhiFightsPollution pic.twitter.com/4GgKeeWKSa

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) August 23, 2021
Aam Aadmi Party’s Tweet claiming the new smog tower to be India’s First Smog Tower

Several news media outlets also reported that this was India’s first smog tower.

NDTV’s article
Indian Express’ article
Times of India’s article

Fact-check:

 Upon some research we found that India’s first smog tower was first inaugurated in March, 2021, in Bangalore. The smog tower was inaugurated in the Hudson Circle area of Bangalore and was developed by Nutan Labs. This too is a pilot test which will be observed by relevant authorities.

Article on Bangalore’s smog tower published by The Hindu

Several members of BJP accused Kejriwal was misleading the citizens as they claimed that Gautam Gambhir installed Delhi’s first air purifiers in three areas of Delhi. These air purifiers though do not work at the same capacity as the smog towers and could basically be labelled as indoor air purifiers kept outside. However, since a smog tower already exists in Bangalore, the claim that Delhi has India’s first smog tower is false.

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Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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