India, May 9 -- The government on Friday launched Road RADAR, a real-time road pollution monitoring programme under which 13 surveyors equipped with GPS-enabled bikes will identify dust and other local pollution hot spots across the city's 18,000km of road space.

The programme, launched by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), will deploy one ground surveyor in each of Delhi's 13 districts to identify dust pollution hot spots on a real-time basis. Officials said each source of dust pollution flagged by surveyors will be reported internally for corrective action.

A total of 11 key issues will be tracked under the programme, including unpaved roads, broken footpaths, damaged dividers and potholes; sand or loose material piled on r...