New Delhi: Of the top 10 worlds with the worst air quality, three – Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, are in India, data from air quality and city pollution tracking services from IQAIR, a Swiss-based climate group shows.
While the delhi air quality index (AQI) in 556 made it up on the list, Kolkata and Mumbai each recorded AQI 177 and 169, in fourth and sixth position, on the list.
The city with the worst AQI index also includes Lahore, in Pakistan, and Chengdu, in China.
The real-time air quality information platform is also a technology partner of the UN (UNEP) environmental program.
In accordance with the air forecasting and weather forecasting systems and research (Safar), the overall air quality of Delhi on Saturday morning stands at 499, while the level of PM 10 and PM 2.5 pollutants in the air are recorded at 134 and 72.
Pollution control agency data Center (CPCB) at 9 am.
Record AQI 468 in Anand Vihar, 484 in Ito, 433 in RK Puram and 452 in Sri Aurobindo.
Aqi between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfying’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, then 401 and between 500 is considered ‘severe’.
The Supreme Court on Saturday takes a serious view of severe air pollution in Delhi-NCR and suggests that if needed, the government can declare two days locking to drop levels, which have been caused by spots, vehicles, firecrackers, industries, dust.
The chairman of justice notes that the stump burned by farmers is only responsible for 25 percent of pollution, and the remaining 75 percent of pollution comes from firecrackers, vehicle pollution, dust etc.