The astir polluted spot successful Delhi was Bawana, Mundka, Wazirpur, and NSIT Dwarka, which reported aerial prime successful the "severe" category, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)
The nationalist capital’s aerial prime Wednesday greeting was inactive nether the ‘very poor’ category, portion signaling Air Quality Index (AQI) level astatine 356 arsenic of 9 am. Delhi’s AQI is expected to stay ‘very poor’ till Friday.
The astir polluted spot successful Delhi was Bawana, Mundka, Wazirpur, and NSIT Dwarka, which reported aerial prime successful the “severe” category, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai announced that a run to discourage the unfastened burning of discarded volition statesman successful the superior starting Wednesday, arsenic portion of efforts to combat the rising aerial contamination levels.
Mumbai
Mumbai maintained its aerial prime successful the ‘moderate category’ with an AQI of 126. It is apt to stay ‘moderate’ till Friday. On Saturday, the metropolis had recorded an AQI of 208, which was the highest recorded successful 2024 truthful acold and classified arsenic “poor”.
Bengaluru
The wide aerial prime of Bengaluru was observed nether ‘satisfactory’ class connected Wednesday greeting and is expected to beryllium stay the aforesaid with the AQI astatine 99.
Pune
The wide aerial prime successful Pune was observed nether the ‘moderate’ class with an AQI of 114 this morning. However, the forecast shows a flimsy summation successful AQI is apt aboriginal successful the time pushing the AQI to 171.
Air prime successful Lucknow, Patna dips
Further, Kolkata (161), and Hyderabad (103) are nether the ‘moderate’ class arsenic well. The pollution levels successful Lucknow and Patna deteriorated, with AQI of 271 and 224, respectively.
Meanwhile, Ahmedabad enjoyed ‘satisfactory’ aerial prime with AQI level of 62.
AQI readings are classified arsenic follows: 0-50 is good, 51-100 is satisfactory, 101-200 is moderate, 201-300 is poor, 301-400 is precise poor, and supra 400 is severe.
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First uploaded on: 06-11-2024 astatine 12:51 IST