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Delhi AQI: The air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the ‘very poor’ category on October 23, three days after the national capital witnessed Diwali celebrations. The average Delhi AQI (air quality index) observed at 5.30 am on Thursday stood at 325 according to aqi.in, with most areas in the red zone.
Visuals from near Akshardham temple in Delhi showed the roads with low visibility, and a thick blanket of smog covering the area in the early hours of the day.
Majority areas in Delhi recorded an AQI between 300 to 400, falling in the ‘very poor’ category. The worst air quality was recorded in the Anand Vihar area, with the AQI at 511 at around 5.30 am on Thursday morning.
It is advisable to limit outdoor activities in the National Capital Region to just the essentials till the AQI goes back to at least ‘moderate’.
Delhi recorded the highest AQI among all eight metropolitan cities on Thursday, being the only city its air quality in the ‘severe’ category. Meanwhile, Bengaluru and Chennai recorded an AQI below 50 today, while Ahmedabad and Mumbai showed a reading of 106 AQI in the morning.
The AQI scale categorises air quality as follows: Good (0–50), Satisfactory (51–100), Moderately Polluted (101–200), Poor (201–300), Very Poor (301–400), and Severe (401–500) — the higher the reading, the more harmful it becomes to breathe.
This comes after the Supreme Court, days ahead of Diwali, allowed the public to burst crackers under stringent time limit. However, reports of flouting the top court order emerged from across Delhi and NCR regions, with people going hours past the time frame set by the panel to burst crackers.
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