To promote this initiative, the apartment owner association of the society is also educating residents to give and take lift while travelling on common routes.
The residents of Prateek Wisteria, a high-rise residential society in Noida's sector 77, have come up with an initiative to curtail air pollution levels in city.
The residents have put a sign board at the main exit gate of the society for carpool with fellow residents.
Under this initiative, a resident who is going out of the society, may offer lift to his fellow resident.
To promote this initiative, the apartment owner association of the society is also educating residents to give and take lift while travelling on common routes.
They said that if the initiative gets success and residents also agree on the matter then it will bring desired result as far as curtailing air pollution levels are concerned.
They said that it will result in getting many cars off the road as two or more passengers may travel in one car.
This is not the only society which is carrying out this drive. Elite Homz, another high rise in sector 77 has taken a similar initiative of carpool for the same objective.
Veerbhadra Singh, resident of Elite Homz said that the initiative has got very popular among all the residents of the society. They are taking as well as giving a lift to fellow residents while going out or coming into the society. He said, "We all run a social media group comprising of all the residents in the society. Through this group, the residents put a request for going to their destination and the other going on same route accepts the request."
Air pollutants emitted from cars are believed to cause severe diseases like cancer and also contribute to problems of asthma, heart disease, birth defects and eye irritation.
The emissions from cars increase the level of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
