Gurgaon: pollutants surged dramatically in Gurgaon on Friday with the city of recording the air quality index (AQI) of 448 in the ‘severe’ category, up from 378 in the ‘very poor’ category on Thursday.
Aqi can now live in the ‘severe’ category for several days, according to the state pollution control agency Haryana (HSPCB).
These are the fourth time this city records ‘severe’ air quality this year.
Aqi Gurgaon has changed ‘severe’ for the first time in 5.
November after lingering in the ‘severe’ category for the next three days, air quality has begun to improve from November 8 on Friday, the four pollution monitoring stations in Gurgaon are recorded aqi inside ‘Severe’ category.
Vikas Sadan recorded the highest AQI of 452, followed by Gland Pahia with AQI 449 and Sector 51 with AQI 447.
Meanwhile, Teri Gram recorded the lowest AQI 430.
At present, pollutants are not scattered due to low wind speed and fall temperature, according to HSPCB.
Experts say that burning stumps and meteorological factors can cause further quality decreases in air quality.
The cold wind of the snow-covered mountains in the northwest tends to result in further temperature decline.
The minimum temperature fell to 13.4 degrees Celsius on Friday from 13.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday and could fall further to 11 degrees Celsius on November 30, according to the Ministry of India’s Meteorology.
“We vigorously followed the burial (multilevel response plan) to ensure that air quality increased as soon as possible.
Our team ensured that the incidence of waste burning did not occur in the district.
The condition of the fog is due to meteorological conditions such as low wind speed and soaking temperature,” said Kuldeep Singh, regional HSPCB officers, Gurgaon.
On Thursday, Singh was appointed as a nodal officer for air quality management in Gurgaon and was in charge of preparing plans to reduce air pollution in the district.
After he proposed a plan to the World Bank, the funds for improving air quality will be released to Gurgaon.
On the other hand, the sub-committee, which was formed by the Air Quality Management Commission (CAQM) to implement Grap in the NCR and a side by side, held a meeting on Friday.
At the meeting, it was decided that the grap measures of the ‘severe’ category would be implemented in the region.
In addition, the sub-committee suggests officers and private members and members with other companies to reduce the use of their vehicles at least 30% through options such as homework, car pooling and optimized.
Also recommended residents to limit outdoor activities and minimize their exposure.
“We will watch the Episode of Smog for two more days in this region.
Overall, higher values ​​of the depth of aerosol optical, dominance of anthropogenic sources (pollutants), lower value of water vapor and dominance the contribution of fine mode particles to total The concentration of the particle makes the fog episode worse, “said Shubhansh Tiwari,” Shubhansh said, a research partner, the center of amity to control air pollution.