After slight improvement, Delhi’s air quality deteriorates; AQI to remain in ‘very poor’ category till Tuesday

At 7 americium Sunday, the astir polluted spot successful Delhi was Jahangirpuri with an AQI of 408 (severe), followed by Anand Vihar and Nehru Nagar, some with AQI 405 (severe). Adjoining areas of Ghaziabad and Greater Noida recorded an AQI nether the ‘poor’ category, 256 and 232, respectively.

‘Very poor’ aerial till Tuesday

The aerial prime is apt to gaffe further Sunday evening with the AQI forecast to beryllium astatine 378 astatine 4 pm, arsenic per the Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) for Delhi. “The outlook for the consequent six days (till Tuesday) is that the aerial prime is apt to beryllium successful precise mediocre to terrible category,” the forecast added.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai connected Saturday emphasised the urgent request to tackle aerial contamination crossed bluish India, calling the adjacent 15 days “crucial”. The AQI is forecasted astatine 400 by October 31.

Meanwhile, bluish cities of Bhiwani (152), Rohtak (162) and Jind (225) successful Haryana were among the apical 10 polluted cities successful India successful October, according to CPCB.

Mumbai

As of 7 americium connected Sunday morning, Mumbai maintained its aerial prime successful the ‘moderate category’ with an AQI of 107. However, the AQEWS has forecast the AQI to interaction 222 aboriginal successful the time with the aerial prime slipping to the ‘poor’ category. It is apt to stay ‘poor’ until Monday.

Pune

The wide aerial prime successful Pune was observed nether the ‘satisfactory’ class with an AQI of 91 this morning. However, the forecast shows a flimsy summation successful AQI is apt aboriginal successful the time pushing the aerial prime to ‘moderate’ class until Monday.

Bengaluru

The wide aerial prime of Bengaluru was observed nether ‘moderate’ class connected Sunday greeting and is expected to beryllium stay the aforesaid with the AQI astatine 164. Slight betterment is expected with the AQI improving to 111 successful the ‘satisfactory’ category.

Among different metro cities, Kolkata’s wide AQI was astatine 161 (moderate) connected Sunday morning. Further, Lucknow’s AQI stood astatine 35 (good) and Patna astatine 53 (satisfactory), Hyderabad was astatine 88 (satisfactory) and Ahmedabad astatine 62 (satisfactory).