Delhi's Air Quality Remains 'Very Poor'

Noida Borders On 'Severe'


With the fast pace of burning stubble in the nearby areas of the national capital in the NCR regions, the city gets polluted with incessant smoke levels. 

 

Delhi is witnessing a worst scenario with blurry skies and hazy environments. The capital city’s air quality category has touched to a very poor level. Whereas Uttar

Pradesh’s noida is witnessing a severe category of poll level. 

 

while Gurugram's AQI stood at 346 and continued to remain in the 'very poor category, as per data released by SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research) India.

 

Air Quality Index from 0 to 100 is considered as good, while from 100 to 200 it is moderate, from 200 to 300 it is poor, and from 300 to 400 it is said to be very poor and from 400 too 500 or above it is considered as severe.

 

The city of Delhi fared very poorly. Narela in North West Delhi reported the highest AQI at 571 on Tuesday. North Delhi Air Quality is the poorest at the moment as almost all the stations have AQI above 400. Most of the stations in the capital have an AQI above 300 except a few like Mandir Marg in central Delhi.

 

According to data by SAFAR, Dhirpur in Model Town dipped to an AQI of 356. The AQI near IGI Airport (T3) also stood in the 'very poor' category on Wednesday at 350.

PC : ANI

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