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A foriegn tourer wearing a look disguise arsenic aerial prime continues to stay poor, astatine Vijay Chowk, successful New Delhi, Wednesday, Oct. 23. (PTI Photo)
The aerial prime successful Delhi improved connected Saturday greeting with an Air Quality Index of 227 successful the “poor” category. At 9 am, Delhi’s AQI was recorded astatine 227, down from 281 connected Friday morning, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. This was the 2nd consecutive time the AQI has shown an betterment aft 4 days of remaining ‘very poor’.
The AQI is expected to transverse 300 aboriginal successful the day, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) forecast.
The AQI successful Mundka and Anand Vihar (AQI 367) country of Delhi persisted successful the ‘very poor’ class connected Saturday, with PM 10 arsenic the salient pollutant successful the city.
The Air Quality Early Warning System predicts that irrespective of a akin upwind pattern, contamination levels volition apt emergence successful Delhi for the adjacent two-three days owed to unfavourable upwind conditions, with the AQI forecasted astatine 400 by October 31.
Northern cities of Bhiwani, Rohtak and Jind successful Haryana were among the apical 10 polluted cities successful India successful October, according to CPCB. Noida and Ghaziabad successful Uttar Pradesh besides amusement unhealthy aerial prime this month.
An AQI betwixt zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’
For Mumbai, the wide AQI was astatine 112 connected Saturday morning. Kolkata’s AQI stood astatine 161, Bengaluru astatine 113, Lucknow astatine 80 and Patna astatine 49 connected Saturday. Meanwhile, Hyderabad was astatine 110 and Ahmedabad astatine 62.
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