From Deccan Chronicle
Center Owned by Deccan Chronicle HoldingsDelhi AQI Data Under Scrutiny as Monitoring Stations Go Offline on Diwali Night
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After Diwali, air quality across North India fell into the ‘severe’ zone, with Haryana’s Bahadurgarh recording an AQI of 400 and Delhi ranking tenth in the poll. The spike occurred despite GRAP Stage 3 emergency restrictions being activated. Reports note that winter and post‑Diwali periods often see AQI numbers such as 150, 300 or 500 dominate headlines, prompting health concerns. Health experts from AIIMS and Apollo Hospitals have warned that even healthy people are reporting symptoms linked to the deteriorating air quality.
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Delhi recorded its most polluted Diwali in five years, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) touching 376 on November 8. The air quality remained in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday, November 9, with the overall AQI standing at 371 at 10 am amid a thick blanket of smog and fog. The post-Diwali…
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Delhi’s air quality slipped to the ‘very poor’ category on the day after Diwali, with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recording an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of 370, while some private air-quality monitoring platforms reported readings as high as 1,500. The discrepancy came even as…
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City-wise data by CPCB as of 4PM, 9th November, suggest that the problem remains concentrated in Northern and Western India, but pollution is no longer confined to traditional hotspots
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AQI (air quality index) readings put out by private agencies did, in fact, paint a much more unpleasant picture than what the official figures reflected, with most parts of Delhi-NCR reporting extremely hazardous air pollution levels, leading experts to cast doubts over government data.
