Lucknow, December 13: Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the state government is continuously taking concrete steps towards making Uttar Pradesh a cleaner, healthier, and more economically viable state. To address the growing challenge of air pollution,
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will launch the Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management Project (UPCAMP) in January 2026. The governing body of this project will be chaired by the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, with the Principal Secretary and Additional Chief Secretary designated as members.
To address the serious problem of air pollution, the Yogi government is implementing the UPCAMP project with support from the World Bank. In this regard, the second meeting of the governing body of the UPCAMP Authority was recently held under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, and senior officials from the relevant departments, including the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, participated. During the meeting, the Chief Secretary directed that a timely update on the progress of all necessary steps related to the project’s implementation be presented at the next meeting.
Project discussions regarding this project were successfully concluded on November 3rd in New Delhi between the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), the World Bank, and the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Following this, the World Bank’s Board of Directors formally approved the project on December 10th. The governing body was briefed on the project’s structure, financing arrangements, and preparations for implementation through the UPCAMP Authority, a special purpose vehicle.
UPCAMP is India’s first airspace-based air quality management project, developed as a multi-sectoral program targeting major sources of air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The project is based on extensive scientific studies conducted by the World Bank in collaboration with prestigious institutions such as IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NISU). It utilizes the GAINS model developed in Austria.