Delhi Air Continues To Remain In 'Very Poor' Category With AQI At 313
As per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the overall air quality in the national capital continued to remain in the 'very poor' category on Monday morning with an AQI of 313.
On Monday morning, the Delhi University area had an AQI of 348 whereas the air quality at the IIT Delhi was under 'poor' at 273. Delhi Airport Terminal fared no better with an AQI of 323 (very poor).
Similarly, Noida too breathed into the 'poor category' with AQI at 372. Meanwhile, Gurugram was better placed in the 'poor category' with an AQI of 276.
The Air Quality Index from 0 to 100 is considered as good, while from 100 to 200 it is moderate, from 200 to 300 it is poor, and from 300 to 400 it is said to be very poor and from 400 to 500 or above it is considered as severe.
Air Quality Index is a tool for effectively communicating air quality status to people in terms that are easy to understand. It converts and stabilises complex air quality data of various pollutants into a single number.
In order to deal with the constant degrading air quality in the Delhi-NCR region, the sub-committee for invoking actions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) held a meeting on November 18 to review the progress of the actions implemented under Stage II along with Stage I of the GRAP in the entire NCR.
As per the dynamic model and weather forecast provided by IMD, the overall air quality is likely to fluctuate largely between 'Poor' to the lower end of the 'very poor' categories in the next few days.
