The UT has not analyzed till now how many people of Chandigarh or from other states downloaded this application. However, it is being presumed that the maximum users of the application are residents.
According to the mobile application, as a person downloads the application, he/she has to fill our details in four parts. These are water, energy, waste generation and transport (vehicular movement). In the category of water, the person is to give details about water consumption. In the energy section, the user has to key in details such as how much electricity units are consumed every month at the house, monthly bill etc. Is he/she using solar energy or not? In the waste category, the person will write about the waste generation by him/her and the family. In the transport section, a person will specify the mode of his transport, i.e. four-wheeler, two-wheeler or bicycle.
The mobile application automatically calculates the carbon footprint of the individual. The application will describe the national average, the world average of emission. It will also show where do you stand in the process of releasing the emission.
The basic purpose of the app is to make people climate-smart citizens while making them capable of assessing their carbon footprints along with providing them steps to reduce it.
