Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Today, on 10 April, the month of "Clean Air" was announced in Uzbekistan. 

The goal of the event, carried out by the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, is to reduce the emissions of vehicles on the environment and human health, as well as to comply with the requirements of the legislation on permissible air pollution.

In recent years, the increase in the number of manufacturing enterprises, and cars causes a significant increase in the amount of emissions into the atmosphere. This, in turn, contributes to an increase in the level of air pollution in the country, especially in the city of Tashkent. At the end of 2022, the capital took 20th place in the ranking of the International Air Pollution Index

To date, there are about 4 million vehicles in the country, of which 100 thousand are out of order. Of these, an average of 1.3 million tons of harmful emissions are emitted into the atmosphere per year, which is 63% of the total emissions (in Tashkent this figure is 88%).

As a result of the daily increase in the number of vehicles, emissions increased by 26.0 thousand tons in 2022 compared to the previous year. The main reasons include the quality of the type of fuel used, insufficient use of public transport by the population, driving their own vehicles, insufficient attention of car owners to the technical parameters of their vehicle.

During the event, environmental monitoring of the amount of harmful gases emitted into the air by vehicles running on gasoline, diesel fuel, compressed natural and liquefied gas will be carried out with special equipment at all road patrol points of the republic, on central streets.

It should be noted that within the framework of the month, inspection points will be organized at 79 road patrol facilities, as well as mobile posts on the central streets of regions and cities, which will involve 500 employees.

The event will run until 10 May.