Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 24: The air quality in national capital significantly improved from the “very poor” to the “poor” category on Wednesday for the first time in the last 10 days, as per the System of Air Quality & Weather Forecasting & Research (SAFAR). With this improvement, the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 280 today.
Several areas in the national capital including ITO, Lodhi Road, and Mathura Road recorded air quality in “very poor” air with an AQI of 333, 303, and 346 while the AQI at Anand Vihar and Jahangirpuri were in the “severe” category with an AQI 422 and 436 respectively.
According to the SAFAR bulletin, from November 27 onwards local surface winds are likely to increase which will result in improvement of air quality. The share of stubble burning to Delhi’s PM2.5 is 3% and the effective fire count is 770.
Meanwhile, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will be holding a high-level meeting today to review pollution-related restrictions imposed in the city. Rai had held a high-level meeting with senior government official on November 22 also to chalk out plans to curb the air pollution in the city. He had also directed Delhi government employees to continue working from home till November 26.
