India, Feb. 11 -- A day after inaugurating six new ambient air quality monitoring stations, the Delhi government announced plans on Tuesday to install 14 additional stations in the upcoming financial year, aiming to blanket the city with a monitoring point every 25 square kilometers.

The goal is to implement a systematic 5km-by-5km grid network, giving the city one station every 25 sq km and thus eliminating existing geographical gaps in pollution tracking, said Delhi's environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa.

This push aligns with a broader directive from the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM), which on Tuesday called for a denser monitoring network across the entire National Capital Region using...