Paryavaran Saathi Chatbot Launched by Delhi Government to Boost Citizen Participation in Fighting Pollution

Delhi Surroundings Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday launched a chatbot and web site to facilitate folks’s participation within the battle towards air pollution.

Speaking about ”Paryavaran Saathi” chatbot, Rai mentioned folks can share the steps they’re taking to battle air pollution on WhatsApp quantity 9650414141 and they are going to be awarded factors. The highest 100 performers will likely be honoured, he mentioned.

The Chatbot is a partnered initiative with UNICEF’s YuWaah with over 10 lakh youth already related, out of which 50 thousand are from Delhi, he mentioned.

“One can merely textual content ”Hello” on WhatsApp to 9650414141 to speak to the Chatbot and turn into an energetic contributor within the Delhi authorities’s motion towards air pollution. Paryavaran Saathi Chatbot is a medium to have interaction the youth by making them the ”Paryavaran Saathis”. These Saathis will likely be given factors based mostly on their participation; out of which the highest 100 will likely be felicitated,” defined Rai.

“The target of this chatbot is to allow the youth, particularly those that commonly use WhatsApp and different social media platforms, to play a vital function within the battle towards air pollution — for them to turn into a ”Paryavaran Saathi,” he added.

Utilizing this chatbot as a medium, the federal government will interact the youth.

“This manner we goal to make the younger customers conscious of all of the initiatives in place by the Delhi authorities and encourage them to turn into our ”Paryavaran Reporter”, for instance by downloading the Inexperienced Delhi App and reporting air pollution incidents throughout the town.

“They will use the chatbot to ship data relating to incidents of carpooling, use of public transport, any grievances, finishing up door-to-door campaigning to get folks to signal pledges. They will additionally carry out Nukkad Naataks, paint encouraging messages on partitions, and use different artistic methods to do their half, all of which might be shared with us through the chatbot,” Rai mentioned.

The minister mentioned the scholars and youth will obtain factors for these actions, relying on which prime 100 will likely be rewarded and felicitated publicly in order that increasingly folks really feel inspired to affix the motion. The one-stop web site “www.delhifightspollution.in” will let guests know in regards to the air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital and the steps they’ll take to manage varied forms of air pollution, Rai mentioned.

He mentioned full details about all of the campaigns being run to maintain air air pollution in verify might be discovered on the web site and efficient use of the content material will assist unfold consciousness.

Important details about the EV Coverage and Tree Transplantation Coverage amongst different information will likely be obtainable on the web site. The Surroundings minister additional appealed to the youth to take part within the “battle waged by CM Arvind Kejriwal towards air pollution in Delhi” by way of social media platforms.