Prabhat Kumar Rai

Roadside Plants - Study on Eco-sustainability Prabhat Kumar Rai

It is well known that air pollution, particularly particulates, originating from multiple sources (industries, vehicles, rocks, mining and quarry), represents a threat to environment as well as human health. Environmental contamination and human exposure with respect to dust pollution have dramatically increased during the past ten years. However,no systematic study has been done in ecologically sensitive hilly regions like Aizawl, Mizoram, North-East India which is also an integral part of extremely diverse Indo-Burma hot spot region. No comparative study has been done to study the impacts of air pollution on common plants with their possible phyto-technological innovation as well as socio-economic characterization at two sites of different geography. The present study is a strong first step and warrants further efforts which may paves the way to screen the feasibility of this plants in context of their potentiality to be planted in other urban areas with varying pollution load. This is a cost effective technology for controlling particulate and gaseous emission generated due to vehicular movement, domestic emission and even industrial emissions.