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Round the year study of air quality is expected to aid Delhi government in being able to specify sources of air pollution in the city from 2020. The project will assess data from Delhi Pollution Control Committee stations and create a model that will indicate the sources fouling up the city air every four hours. Called Real Time Source Apportionment Study for Air Pollution in Delhi, the project is being carried out by Delhi government jointly with the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering of the University of Washington in St Louis. Such a study had been included in Delhi government’s green budget in 2018.