AQI Update: Air quality very poor in Chandigarh

AQI Update: The Union Territory of Chandigarh and respective places successful Haryana connected Friday recorded precise mediocre aerial prime portion successful neighbouring Punjab the concern was comparatively better. Chandigarh recorded the Air Quality Index (AQI) astatine 327 astatine 10 am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board's Sameer app, which provides hourly updates.

On Thursday, Chandigarh, which is the communal superior of Haryana and Punjab, had witnessed its AQI plunging to the 'severe' class for the archetypal clip successful the season.

The aerial prime successful respective parts of Haryana was besides recorded successful the precise mediocre bracket connected Friday.

As per the CPCB's Sameer app information disposable astatine 10 am, the AQI was 323 successful Gurugram, 346 successful Bhiwani, 318 successful Ballabhgarh, 318 successful Jind, 313 successful Karnal, 334 successful Kaithal and 304 successful Sonipat.

In Punjab, Amritsar recorded its AQI astatine 225, Ludhiana 178, Mandi Gobindgarh 203, Rupnagar 228 and Jalandhar 241.

An AQI betwixt zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 precise poor, 401 and 450 terrible and supra 450 terrible plus.

Stubble burning successful Punjab and Haryana aft harvesting the paddy harvest successful October and November is often blamed for the emergence successful aerial contamination successful Delhi.

As the model for sowing the Rabi crop, wheat, is precise abbreviated aft paddy harvest, immoderate farmers acceptable their fields connected occurrence to rapidly wide the harvest residue.