‘Poor’ in Delhi, ‘Satisfactory’ in Mumbai: Where do AQI levels of major cities in India stand at?

Five stations successful the Capital reported ‘poor’ aerial prime — Punjabi Bagh (286), R K Puram (269), Vivek Vihar (284), Okhla (290), and Ashok Vihar (265).

The archetypal acceptable of exigency effect measures (GRAP Stage-1) had already kicked successful connected Tuesday.

Delhi’s air prime usually sees a dip starting October, arsenic the monsoon winds recede and are replaced chiefly by northwesterlies. The operation of a dip successful temperature, workplace fires successful neighbouring states and calm upwind mean that pollutants get accumulated successful the city’s aerial during this time, each year.

There are six categories of AQI, namely ‘Good’ (0-50), ‘Satisfactory’ (50-100), ‘Moderately polluted’ (100-200), ‘Poor’ (200-300), ‘Very Poor’ (300-400), and ‘Severe’ (400-500).

What’s happening successful the remainder of the country?

The AQI levels successful cities including Mumbai (62), Bengaluru (56), Pune (57) and Ahmedabad (62) were successful the ‘satisfactory’ class arsenic of 10 am, arsenic per the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) forecast.

Further, Hyderabad’s aerial prime remains ‘good’ with an AQI of 33.

In states neighbouring Delhi, respective salient cities successful Haryana similar Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Panipat and Sonipat showed a downward inclination with the AQI crossing the 200-mark.

Major cities successful Punjab, too, saw the AQI dip to the ‘poor’ category.