Contributing to India's battle against air pollution, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) has developed a modelling tool called PAVITRA (air Pollution mAnagement and interVentIon Tool foR IndiA) in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley; the think tank Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP); and the University of Washington. The tool will be powered by InMAP (Intervention Model for Air Pollution), which generates simplified air quality models.

The project, supported by a $3 million grant from Open Philanthropy, USA, is collaboratively led by Prof Chandra Venkataraman of IIT-B and a team that includes Prof Joshua Apte (University of California), Prof Julian Marshall (University of Washington), Prof Srinidhi Balasubramanian (IIT-B) and Dr Pratima Singh and Dr Indu Murthy (CSTEP).