Delhi AQI: Delhi’s air quality continued to be “very poor” in the morning after Diwali. The average Delhi AQI (air quality index) observed at 5.30 am on Tuesday stood at 346, with most areas in the red zone.
As the national capital celebrated the festival of lights with ‘green’ firecrackers after the Supreme Court lifted the ban, Delhi saw a dip in the air quality to ‘very poor’ category on Sunday.
At 10 pm Monday night, 36 out of 38 monitoring stations recorded pollution levels in the ‘red zone’, which indicated ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ air quality across Delhi.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the four stations that recorded severe air quality were Dwarka (417), Ashok Vihar (404), Wazirpur (423) and Anand Vihar (404).
