Breathe Pure Air At Nashik Railway Station
Airo Guard has collaborated with the Indian Railways to start an ‘Oxygen Parlour’ at Nashik Railway Station. Watch our video to learn more about this unique initiative.
To fight the increasing air pollution levels in Nasik, an ‘Oxygen Parlour’ has been set up at Nasik Road railway station, to provide a source of clean air for commuters. Airo Guard, is a Nashik based consultancy firm in the field of plant nurseries. They have collaborated with the Indian Railways to start this Oxygen Parlour. The range of the Air Quality Index (AQI) deemed to be unhealthy is 145 to 165. Currently, the AQI of Nasik is 149.According to the co-founder of Airo Guard,Amit Amritkar said that the concept of ‘Oxygen Parlor’ draws inspiration from a study conducted by NASA.“In 1989, NASA had conducted a study in which they identified some plants that better absorb the five most harmful pollutants from the air. We have planted most of those plants here,” said Amit Amritkar.
These plants are capable of cleaning the air in an area of 10X10 feet around them.There are around 1500 plants in the Oxygen Parlour. These plants can directly bring down the pollution in the air at the railway station and allow the people to breathe cleaner air. Amritkar says that they aim to spread this initiative, first to every railway station and then eventually to every home. “People can also gift one of these plants to friends and family. It will expand the reach of this initiative and help improve the air quality across the country,” This has been greatly appreciated by commuters. A passenger at the NAsik Railway station said, “This is a good effort towards improving air quality. I think that there should be such parlours in all the polluted areas and railway station,”
