Delhi air quality remains 'poor' for third consecutive day

The overall air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the poor category for the third straight day on Saturday morning as per the SAFARIndiaAccording to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research SAFARIndia the overall air quality in the national capital is in the poor category with an AQI of 286 After being in the moderate category with an AQI of 190 on Wednesday the citys AQI has been in the poor category since then with 256 on Thursday and 249 on FridayIn the Delhi University area and Pusa the quality of air was recorded as very poor and poor with AQI at 316 and 201 respectively at 7 am todayThe quality of air in the IIT Delhi region also remained in the poor category with an AQI of 276 The quality of air at the Airport T3 was also in the poor category with an AQI of 293 The Mathura Road recorded 165 AQI coming under the moderate categoryMeanwhile Noida recorded an AQI of 255 poor and Gurugram 200 moderateAir Quality Index AQI is a tool for effective communication of air quality status to people in terms which are easy to understand It transforms complex air quality data of various pollutants into a single number index value nomenclature and colourThe AQI from 0 to 100 is considered good while from 100 to 200 it is moderate from 200 to 300 it is poor and from 300 to 400 it is said to be very poor and from 400 to 500 or above it is considered as severeEarlier on Friday Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said that a 15point winter action plan is being implemented one by one to curb the pollutionDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had earlier announced a 15point winter action plan to curb the pollution caused by vehicles biomass burning dust etc Now this winter action plan is being implemented on the ground one by one to reduce the pollution in the national capital Rai told ANIThe Delhi Minister said that since one of the major causes of the pollution is vehicles they have started the Red Light on Gaadi off campaign on ThursdayNow the data says that in AQI the level of Particulate matter PM 10 is decreasing and that of PM25 is increasing This means that pollution caused by vehicles and biomass burning is increasing For this the Red Light on Gaadi off campaign has been started since yesterday the Delhi Minister saidThis campaign started from the Income Tax Office ITO on Thursday It will be conducted at Barakhamba Road and other locations in the city On November 2 this campaign will be held in 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi On November 3 the campaign will be promoted in schools via eco clubs he addedRai said that through this campaign they are trying to control the unnecessary burning of fuel and the spreading of pollution in the national capitalTo mitigate pollution water was sprinkled through an antismog gun in the Anand Vihar area on ThursdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever