Diwali 2024: The air quality in Delhi became poorer this morning because individuals have violated a no-burning order of firecrackers during Diwali 2024 on Thursday.
People burst fire crackers unmindfully throughout the day and night setting off loud fire crackers causing huge noise pollution and polluted the atmosphere of the national capital with thick smoke.
According to the real-time data provided by the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) soared to 359 at 6:40 per cent which falls under the “very poor” bracket at 7:30 am. The AQI on the morning of Diwali 2024 was 328.
AQI good ranges from zero to fifty, the acceptable is between fifty one to one hundred, moderate AQI is between one hundred one to two hundred, poor between two hundred one to three hundred, very poor between three hundred one to four hundred and fifty, severe between four hundred and one to four hundred and fifty and lastly severe-plus for AQI above four hundred fifty.
Concentrations of fine particulate matter – hazardous microparticles of PM2.5 pollutants that directly affect the bloodstream through the lungs – rose to above 2300 µg/m3, a livid WHO daily limit.
Environment monitoring firm IQAir said the pollutant levels were above 345 micrograms per cubic metre and ranked Delhi as world’s worst.
Even before Diwali 2024
The actual AQI level in most of 40 fixed stations of the city of Delhi continued to be in the ‘Very Poor’ category In with Anand Vihar and RK Puram measuring the worse I AQI of 395.
Other areas that had “very poor” air quality were Burari Crossing with AQI 394 and Sonia Vihar with AQI 392, Punjabi Bagh with AQI 391, North Campus of Delhi University with AQI 390, Bawana with AQI 388, Jahangirpuri with AQI 387, Rohini with AQI 385, Ashok Vihar with AQI 384 and Nehru
The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorlogy (IITM), Pune has predicted that air quality in the national capital will remain in ‘very poor’ category (AQI 300-400) on Friday.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Diwali 2024 eve that 377 teams were constituted with the task to implement the directions regarding the ban on firecrackers in the Delhi capital. Based on what a senior Delhi Police officer said, all DCPs were instructed to set upsteams to enforce that no firecrackers explode in their zones.
The ‘festival of lights’ was last observed on November 12 While Delhi’s AQI was 218 on Diwali 2024 day, it was the best in eight years.
Air pollution in Delhi: stubble burning or farm fires in neighboring Haryana and Punjab, especially in the post harvest month of October and November are also held responsible for rising levels of pollution in Delhi.
Delhi has been choking to hazardous air quality for the last few weeks which forced authorities to implement stage two of Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP last week.
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