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Uttar Pradesh Clean Air
Management Program
India's first airshed-based air quality management program — driving clean energy transitions across transport, clean cooking, agriculture & livestock, industry, waste management, and road dust control to bring cleaner, breathable air to 270 million people in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
Project Result Areas
RESULT AREA 1
Strengthening State Capabilities for Air Quality Management
Building a robust Decision Support System with 193 CAAQMS stations, 3 supersites, 15 Regional Knowledge Centres, and an Air Pollution Early Warning System across Uttar Pradesh.
RESULT AREA 2
Advancing Sector Interventions for Emissions Reduction
Targeted interventions across clean cooking (39.2L households), transport (500 E-buses, 15,000 E-3Ws), industry (780 brick kilns), agriculture (48,000 Ha), waste and dust management.
RESULT AREA 3
Enabling IGP Airshed Cooperation
Inter-state workshops, airshed-based air quality management advocacy, cross-border collaboration, and joint monitoring of transboundary air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
Six Sectors. One Clean Air Mission.
UPCAMP addresses PM2.5 through targeted interventions across the key sources of air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
Transport & Green Mobility
Electric buses, e-three-wheelers, and heavy-duty vehicle scrapping across major cities.
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Clean Cooking
Transitioning 3.9 million households from biomass to clean cooking technologies.
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Agriculture & Nitrogen
4R nutrient stewardship, crop residue management, and livestock waste solutions.
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Industry & MSME
Brick kiln modernization, common boiler facilities, and cluster-based clean air plans.
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Air Quality Monitoring
Decision Support System with supersites, AI-enabled tracking, and real-time data.
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City-Level Management
Municipal air quality action plans and urban governance best practices.
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Uttar Pradesh is on course to become a $1 trillion economy because we believe that economic growth, productivity, and ecological balance go hand in hand. Through the Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management Program, our pursuit of prosperity will be measured not by GDP alone, but by clean skies, healthier and more productive citizens, and a flourishing environment that sustains our people and our planet.
Shri Arun Kumar Saxena
Hon'ble State Minister (Independent Charge), EF&CC Department, Govt. of UP & Chairman, UP Forest Corporation
Shri Krishnapal Malik
Hon'ble State Minister, EF&CC Department, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
Smt. V. Hekali Zhimomi, IAS
Principal Secretary, Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department, Govt. of UP
Ms. B. Chandrakala
CEO, Clean Air Management Authority & Secretary of Forest, Environment & Climate Change
Data & Impact
Monitoring Stations
CAAQMS & low-cost sensors operational across UP
Districts Covered
Districts with at least one AQ monitoring station
State Avg. AQI
Annual mean Air Quality Index across all stations
Clean Cooking Transitions
Households shifted to clean fuels under UPCAMPA
Crop Burning Reduction
YoY decline in satellite-detected fire events
E-Buses Operational
Electric buses deployed in Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra & Varanasi
District-wise Air Quality Index
Annual mean AQI across Uttar Pradesh districts
Source: CPCB / UPPCB Monitoring Data, 2025–26 (illustrative)
Featured
Articles
UPCAMP Program Appraisal Document — World Bank
GAINS-IGP Airshed Modelling for Uttar Pradesh
State Action Plan for Clean Air — UP 2025–2031
Environmental & Social Systems Assessment (ESSA)
Clean Cooking Technology Options — Stakeholder Guide
Baseline Air Quality Assessment — Indo-Gangetic Plain
Our Partners & Collaborators
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