Delhi AQI Hits 389 as Rohini and IIT Delhi Record ‘Severe’ Air at 474
Delhi’s air quality index stood at 389 at 8 am on Friday, November 6, keeping the capital in the ‘very poor’ category. Several parts of the city recorded considerably worse air, with Rohini and IIT Delhi both registering an AQI of 474, according to Central Pollution Control Board readings reported by ANI. thenewsmill.com
Punjabi Bagh recorded an AQI of 465, followed by RK Puram at 443 and ITO at 422. Firoz Shah Road registered 420 and India Gate 403. All seven locations were in the ‘severe’ category.
Readings elsewhere remained ‘very poor’. Aya Nagar recorded 393, Chandni Chowk 391 and Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport 385. The reading around Anand Vihar and Akshardham was 359.
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Municipal crews used truck-mounted sprinklers near India Gate to curb road dust under Stage II of the Graded Response Action Plan, or GRAP. The Commission for Air Quality Management invokes the stages for Delhi-NCR. Stage II corresponds to Delhi’s citywide AQI band of 301 to 400. thenewsmill.com
The India Meteorological Department reported a morning temperature of 17.8°C and mainly clear skies. It forecast shallow fog over the next four days, with early morning fog or mist on November 10 and 11.
Sarvesh, a Delhi resident who spoke to ANI, said he was struggling to breathe and felt a burning sensation in his eyes even though there was little traffic where he was that morning. Another resident, 71-year-old Nemichand Sharma, blamed unchecked urban development and said he had seen little action on the ground.
The pollution also sharpened a dispute between Delhi and Punjab over crop residue burning. On Thursday, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa accused Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of misleading the public about whether paddy harvesting had begun. Speaking at the Integrated Command and Control Centre in Shastri Park, Sirsa cited what he said were Punjab government figures and claimed that 77 per cent of the stubble had already been burnt.
With inputs from ANI