New Delhi:
Delhi’s air remains at dangerous levels every day. Due to air pollution, AQI reached 494 in Wazirpur, Delhi at 9 pm on Tuesday night. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the AQI of other areas including Anand Vihar, Narela, Jahangirpuri and Rohini has also crossed 400. At the same time, the average AQI of Delhi has been recorded at 494. This is the worst AQI this season. Meanwhile, Delhi’s Environment Minister Gopal Rai has written a letter to the Central Government requesting for artificial rain.
Environment Minister in Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party government, Bhupendra Yadav, has said that pollution in Delhi is in a very serious category. To deal with this, there is a need to make artificial rain. Rai has described this situation as a medical emergency. In view of the severity of air pollution in Delhi-NCR on Monday, all necessary restrictions of Stage 4 of Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) have been implemented.
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Where is AQI in Delhi?
According to aqicn.org, a site that gives real-time reading of air quality index, AQI of Wazirpur, Delhi was recorded at 9 pm on Tuesday night at 494. Ashok Vihar’s AQI was 488, Bawana’s 430, Karni Singh Range’s 480, Dwarka’s 472, Jahangirpuri’s 466, Major Dhyanchand Stadium’s 476, Mundka’s 400, Najafgarh’s 490. AQI of Nehru Nagar was 488, Rohini was 476, Mandir Marg was 490, Okhla was 489.
See AQI of other cities.
NCR’s air also became bad
CBCB shared data from 37 out of 40 monitoring centers in the city. According to this, the air quality in 3 centers Bawana, Burari and Jahangirpuri was recorded in ‘severe’ category. The air quality has also been recorded as ‘very poor’ in the cities adjacent to Delhi, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Noida and ‘poor’ in Faridabad, Gurugram.
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Dense fog increased the problem
Amidst pollution, the effect of cold and fog is also increasing in North India including Delhi-NCR. The Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an alert of dense fog for one or two days in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana and Bihar. Due to dense fog in Delhi, visibility is reducing significantly in the morning and night. However, the lowest visibility (zero meter) in the country was recorded in Agra. According to the Meteorological Department, fog will persist here in the coming few days.
Increasing cases of stubble burning in Punjab-Haryana
From September 15 to November 18, only 1118 cases of stubble burning were found in Haryana. At the same time, 9600 cases have been reported in Punjab. That means, more than 8 times cases of stubble burning have been reported in Punjab. According to the data, 247 incidents of stubble burning were recorded in Muktsar district on Monday, the highest in the state, followed by Moga (149), Firozpur (130), Bathinda (129), Fazilka (94) and Faridkot (88). Is the place of. According to the data, 701 and 637 cases of stubble burning were recorded in the state on the same day in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Compared to the figures recorded in the same period last year, a decrease of about 71 percent was recorded.
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Holidays in schools in Haryana, instructions for WFH
In Haryana, amid worsening conditions due to pollution, holidays have been declared till 12th in all government and private schools. Schools are closed in Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Rewari, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Charkhi Dadri, Panipat and Sonipat. Due to increasing pollution in Gurugram and Faridabad, the administration has appealed to private institutions and corporate offices to work from home.
DU and Jamia started online classes
In view of the increasing air pollution in Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Delhi University (DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have decided to shift to online mode for their students and employees. Classes are running online. Staff can work from home.
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