Lucknow: Major City, including Lucknow, kept rolling under the level of high air pollution on Saturday with air quality in various poor categories, very bad and severe.
Superfine particles The material that began to surge after night Diwali (Thursday) led to a surge in the air quality index (AQI) in most cities in the state.
Aqi crosses 400-marks who are worried about a dozen districts on Friday due to fireworks, vehicle emissions and conducive weather conditions.
A similar trend continues on Saturday.
In Lucknow, the situation is relatively better, but still air in a bad category (AQI: 201-300).
According to data on the Central Pollution Control Agency (CPCB), Aqi City on Thursday was 242, which rose 278 because the air quality deteriorated on Friday before going down to 260 on Saturday.
Moderate winds maintain lower air pollution this year at Diwali compared to 2019 and 2020, but the concentration of PM2.5 in six areas of the city remain above the allowed limits of 60 micrograms set by the standard of national ambient air quality.
PM2.5 concentration the highest average in chat with 208 micrograms per cubic air, followed by Dr.
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (172), Kukrail Picnic Spot (132.7), Lalbagh (128.6), Gomtinagar (109.8) and Central School, Aliganj ( 100)).
Environment Prof.
Venkatesh Dutta said, “Fireworks during Diwali and Traffic Snarls because in a hurry to take clean air victims.
People must adopt pollution control steps.” 11 cities among the most polluted: the situation in the center and west of the worst with quality Severe air (Aqi above 400).
In fact, Ghaziabad with AQI (466) and Noida (461) are the two most polluted places in the country followed by two Haryana City – Gurugram (456) and Faridabad (449).
UPP Baphpat (445), Hapur (445), Meerut (438) and Bulandshahr (433) also found above 10.
Overall, 11 cities rose (60%) were among the 16 most polluted places in India.
Gorakhpur (386), Agra (390) and Muzaffarnagar (328) recorded ‘very poor’ air quality.