New Delhi: Delhi and its neighbouring areas noticed an increase in air pollution ranges in a single day, with the capital’s Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching 365 at 9 am on Tuesday, as per the Central Pollution Control Board. The AQI was 348 at 4 pm on Monday, displaying a decline from 301 on Sunday. The every day common AQI, measured at 4 pm daily, was 319 on Saturday, 405 on Friday and 419 on Thursday.
The suburbs of Delhi, corresponding to Ghaziabad (340), Gurugram (324), Greater Noida (306), Noida (338) and Faridabad (336) additionally recorded ‘poor’ air high quality. An AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, 401 and 450 ‘severe’ and above 450 ‘severe plus’.
The Centre on Saturday relaxed a number of the strict measures, together with a ban on building work associated to linear tasks and the entry of polluting vans into Delhi, in view of the drop in air pollution ranges resulting from beneficial wind velocity and path. These measures have been a part of the ultimate stage – Stage IV – of the Centre’s air air pollution management plan known as the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in National Capital Region and Adjoining Area, a statutory physique chargeable for formulating methods to fight air pollution within the area, requested Delhi and NCR states to revoke all emergency measures, underneath which solely CNG, electrical and BS VI-compliant automobiles from different states are allowed to enter Delhi, with exemptions granted to these concerned in important companies.
All medium and heavy items automobiles not engaged in important companies have been additionally banned within the capital underneath Stage IV of GRAP. According to the newest CAQM order, all different curbs underneath levels I, II and III of GRAP, together with a ban on non-essential building work, mining, stone crushers and diesel mills will proceed. Delhi on Tuesday recorded a minimal temperature of 11.5 levels Celsius, a notch under the season’s common, the India Meteorological Department stated.
The relative humidity was recorded at 91 per cent at 8:30 am. The IMD has predicted shallow fog throughout the day. The most temperature is more likely to settle round 26 levels Celsius.
