Jaipur: Morning after Diwali, Jaipur residents woke up to toxic fog blankets because the city air quality violated the ‘very poor’ category.
As a result of the total neglect of firecrackers, the Jaipur Air Index Index (AQI) rose to 364 on Friday, the sharpest decline since 2016, the year when AQI monitoring began in the city.
The day before Diwali (November 3), the city AQI was 162.
Previously, the sharpest decline in air quality was reported in 2019 when AQI rose to 290, a day after Diwali, from 158, a day before the festival.
In 2016, 2017 and 2020 (Covid’s arrival), Aqi, the day before and after the festival, did not see many changes in the city.
Not only in Jaipur, AQI also took risks at Jodhpur, Udaipur, City, Ajmer and Pali with a logging amount above 200.
Jodhpur was not much behind Jaipur because AQI touched 342 on Friday, while the city index rose to 304.
Space data Control control of the central pollution pollution showed the Jaipur pollution monitoring station recorded a sharp decline in air quality with pollutant concentration such as PM2.5 rising.
At the Jaipur Commisariance monitoring station, the PM2.5 level which was recorded from midnight to 8am on Diwali’s day was 157.3 micrograms per cubic meter, which rose to 355.63 in the same period the following day.
At the pollution monitoring station Adarsh Nagar, the same trend is visible.
At the pollution monitoring station Adarsh Nagar, the same trend was seen but the level of PM2.5 was not as much as it at Jaipur Komisarier.
From midnight to 8 in the morning on Diwali day, the PM2.5 level was 141.63 micrograms per cubic meter, which rose to 272.51 in the same period the next day on Diwali will be released on Monday.
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Days after diwali, the poorest air quality in the record
