Wazirpur and Bawana slip back into ‘severe’ air quality even as city-wide levels stay ‘very poor’ Delhi’s air quality stayed in the ‘very poor’ category on Thursday, with the city recording an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 349 at 7 AM, a day after Stage III measures under the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) were […]
Delhi’s air quality slips to the ‘very poor’ band with several stations in ‘severe’ range, prompting Stage 4 restrictions on heavy vehicles, construction and schools, as the Supreme Court presses Punjab and Haryana to enforce stubble control measures Delhi recorded very poor air quality on the morning of 18 November, with the city’s Air Quality […]
Construction workers comprised the majority of informal settlement residents surveyed at 46.6 per cent, followed by waste pickers at 10.2 per cent and street vendors at 6.9 per cent Saroj, a 55-year-old construction worker living near the Bakkarwala landfill site, embodies the challenges faced by informal sector workers amid Delhi’s escalating air pollution crisis. With frequent construction bans […]
Diwali Celebrations Contribute to Worsening Air Quality in Delhi-NCR, Rainfall Offers Temporary Relief Delhi and its adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) woke up to a thick layer of smog on Monday morning, a consequence of Diwali celebrations that involved widespread cracker bursting, exacerbating the already compromised air quality. Social media was flooded with images […]
At 5 AM on 5 November, the average Air Quality Index (AQI) for Delhi had clocked 454, which escalated to 463 at 3 PM due to the continued unfavourable meteorological and climatic conditions Delhi’s average AQI clocked 454 as per the daily AQI Bulletin provided by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on 5 November. […]
