Despite witnessing a drop by 41 points in the average Air Quality Index (AQI), the national capital's bad air woes continued to haunt the citizens, with AQI remaining in the 'severe' category on Wednesday.
A day after a minimal drop, the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Saturday again reached the ‘severe’ category with a combination of smog and fog enveloping the national capital, reducing the visibility to 200 meters in the morning.
With the implementation of Graded Response Action Plan’s (GRAP) stage- III restrictions in Delhi, the city's air quality index saw slight improvement on Friday, moving to 'very poor' category from the 'severe' one a day earlier.
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The city's AQI stood at 418 from Tuesday's figure of 334.
After Dussehra, Delhi's AQI entered the "poor" category on Sunday with a reading of 224.
Asansol has ranked 20th out of 47 cities in the country with a population of over one million in the Air Pollution Quality Index in the country, according to the latest data revealed by the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate control (MoEFCC).
Until last week, the minimum temperature was hovering around 12 degrees, and the maximum temperature was recorded at around 25 to 27 degrees.
The IMD forecast "dense fog" during the early hours of Thursday with the minimum and the maximum temperatures hovering between 7 and 19 degrees Celsius respectively.
As per the CAQM, at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m on Sunday the average AQI for Delhi stood at 458 and 457 respectively.
