Delhi’s air quality continued to be “very poor” in the morning after Diwali. The average air quality index (AQI) observed at 5.30 am Tuesday stood at 346, with most of the areas in red zone.
As the national capital celebrated the festival of lights after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on green crackers, Delhi saw a dip in the air quality to ‘very poor’ category on Sunday.
At 10 pm last 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).
