New Delhi’s air quality persisted to be in the ‘very poor’ category, while the mercury recorded a high of 11.4 degrees Celsius, at 7:01 am, stated the Indian Meteorological Department or IMD website.
Delhi’s Air Quality Index or AQI stood at 349 on December 7 at 7:01 am, as per Central Pollution Control Board-CPCB.
An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 to 200 moderate, 201 to 300 poor, 301 to 400 very poor and 401 to 500 severe. An AQI above 500 comes under in the severe plus category.
Multiple areas across Delhi registered air quality in the very poor and poor category while no location registered the severe category today. As per SAFAR, the air quality was registered at Delhi University where AQI stood at 322, 321 at Noida, 353 at Dhirpur, 306 at Delhi airport (T3).
As per CPCB data at 8 am, Alipur witnessed very poor air with AQI at 393, Anand Vihar recorded 374 AQI, 350 at Dwarka Sector 8, 364 at ITO, 396 at Jahangirpuri, 333 at RK Puram, 282 at Rohini and 388 at Wazirpur.
Some locations like Ayanagar and Mathura road witnessed moderate category air with AQI 145, 139 respectively.
The minimum temperature settled at 9.2 degrees Celsius and no rain is forecast in the National Capital until December 11.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said last week that Grap-3 has been lifted in the national capital but the government is trying to ensure that Grap-1 and 2 are strictly implemented.
“GRAP 3 is imposed when AQI is 400, but it continued despite low AQI because fluctuations were visible in AQI after Diwali. If the wind speed slows down, AQI may increase again, hence GRAP-1 and GRAP-2 should be strictly implemented. For this, directions are being given to all the departments again,” he added.
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