The air quality in Delhi has started deteriorating again after showing marginal improvement on Monday morning. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the overall AQI of Delhi reached 389 at 8 am on Tuesday, November 16, just about to get into the ‘hazardous’ category (400). Many of the pollution…
Delhi NCR pollution level today: Air quality in Delhi stood in the ‘severe’ category on Saturday, with SAFAR recording an overall AQI of 499. The concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 particles stood at 541 and 349 respectively. At 6 in the morning, the concentration of PM2.5 particles in Pusa, Ayanagar and Delhi…
Stubble burning accounted for 36 per cent of Delhi’s PM2.5 pollution on Friday, the highest this season so far, according to government air quality forecast agency SAFAR. “The overall air quality of Delhi plunged to the upper end of the ‘severe’ category with additional firework emissions The…
The air quality in many cities across Uttar Pradesh deteriorated a day after Indians celebrated Diwali with firecrackers despite the ban. Firecrackers were burst in several Uttar Pradesh districts such as Meerut, Ghaziabad, Noida, Hapur and Bulandshahr, leading to the dip in the Air Quality Index (AQI). In Meerut, the…
The indigenous air quality forecasting framework developed by the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) has received international acceptance. This framework, developed under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), is equivalent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency…