AQI slips to a severe category on the 2nd day…
With the arrival of the winter season, the capital city surges with an incessant level of pollution in the city.
The air Quality Index of the capital city has slipped to a severe category. Meanwhile the city is not even witnessing a cold wave, or winter like situation so far.
On Monday, Delhi reported a hazy air quality (September 19). On Tuesday, the air quality index of Delhi's most polluted hot-spot, Anand Vihar, reached the severe category.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board bulletin on air quality, the AQI of Anand Vihar reached 418 on the second day of the week.
The air quality dangerously affects healthy people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases. Prolonged exposure to such air might cause breathing discomfort, lung problems, asthma and heart diseases.
The AQI of Delhi's Shadipur was reported at 213.
Seeing the severe pollution levels in the national capital for the last three years during Diwali, a complete ban is being imposed on storage, sale and use of all types of firecrackers in Delhi this time, just like last year," Arvind Kejriwal had tweeted.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai, in a statement, said that an action plan will be laid out to strictly implement the ban.
He said, "...To save the people of Delhi from the danger of pollution, like last year, this time also, there is a complete ban on the production, storage, sale and use of all types of firecrackers, so that people's lives can be saved."
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