Delhi’s air quality remained in the very poor category on Thursday as the city was on the brink of a public health emergency with an air quality index (AQI) of 364 on Wednesday being the worst this season.
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00:00 Delhi's air quality remained in the very poor category on Thursday as the city was
00:06 on the brink of a public health emergency with an air quality index of 364 on Wednesday
00:12 being the worst this season.
00:14 According to the details, Delhi's Mundka area topped the chart with the air quality
00:18 index at 616.
00:21 The entire NCR is largely dotted with maroon flags, which signifies hazardous air quality.
00:27 Low wind speed and continuous shovel burning in Punjab have been the major reasons for
00:31 the dropping of air quality levels.
00:34 An overall AQI of 351, very poor, was recorded at 8 am.
00:39 The pollution levels were likely to worsen over the next few weeks despite a series of
00:43 mitigation measures.
00:44 The haze enveloping Delhi was largely because of local pollutants concentrating in the air
00:48 due to still winds and plunging mercury.
00:52 The contribution of farm fires in neighbouring states was still low because of a favourable
00:56 wind direction.
00:58 Farm fires in Punjab and Haryana have increased over the past week, but they were not so far
01:02 at levels they tend to be around this time of year.
01:05 Punjab and Haryana reported 1,556 farm fires on Tuesday, nearly triple the number a week
01:11 ago.
01:12 But they were lower, at 1,769 on October 31 last year and 3,137 in 2021.
01:19 Year-on-year data on stubble fires is not always comparable due to differences in cropping
01:24 and harvest patterns.
01:26 Justice Jasmeet Singh, while dealing with the issues of the creation of an alternative
01:29 forest in Delhi and filling up vacancies in the department, remarked that children were
01:33 suffering from asthma due to breathing polluted air.
01:36 Meanwhile, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday said it has allocated Rs 20 lakh
01:41 per zone for taking measures to combat air pollution in the city, which has been witnessing
01:45 deteriorating air quality for a week now.
01:48 An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate,
01:55 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor and 401 and 500 severe.
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