Delhi NCR Air Pollution Live Update With Air Quality: AQI plunges to 480, worst of the season.

  Morning walkers wear pollution masks as thick haze engulfs city a day after Diwali celebrations. Air quality levels were 10 times the permissible limits.

A thick haze engulfed Delhi on Thursday as it recorded its worst air quality of the year the morning after Diwali, with the pollution level entering “severe-plus emergency” category or ten times the permissible limit due to rampant bursting of toxic firecrackers in gross violation of a Supreme Court order, authorities said.

While many residents and green activists voiced their helplessness at the violation of the Supreme Court’s 8 pm to 10 pm time limit of bursting firecrackers and expressed anguish, doctors advised people to stay indoors, use N-99 masks and not venture out.

The Delhi police said it had registered over 550 cases and arrested over 300 people for violating apex court’s order in this regard, while asserting that on Diwali day, it also seized 2,776 kg of firecrackers, arrested 87 people and registered 72 cases in connection with illegal sale of firecrackers.

Delhi Fire Services responded to over 300 calls on fire incidents triggered by firecrackers and LPG cylinder blast, among others, on Diwali night in Delhi, including an incident in which two children lost their lives and two others were injured. This, they said was much higher than previous years.

Over 250 cases of burn injuries were reported by various hospitals in the national capital this Diwali.

The areas where the violations were recorded included Mayur Vihar Extension, Lajpat Nagar, Lutyens’ Delhi, IP extension, Dwarka and Noida Sector 78, according to a report.

The police admitted that violations were observed and it would take serious legal action against people violating the apex court order. They said they were continuously patrolling the areas to check for violations.

Partly as a result of smoke from the firecrackers, the overall air quality index in Delhi jumped to 574 which falls in the “severe-plus emergency” category, according to data by the Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research.

A “severe plus emergency” AQI essentially means that even healthy people could suffer from respiratory illnesses on prolonged exposure. This air will seriously affect those with ailments, according to the advisory issued by SAFAR.

Heavy smog came back to choke Delhiites as the city woke up to ‘severe' air quality on Tuesday as pollution levels breached the permissible standards by multiple times.

The rapid fall in air quality and visibility began last evening itself as moisture combined with pollutants shrouded the city in a thick cover of haze.

By 10 am, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recorded 'severe' air quality, meaning the intensity of pollution was extreme. Almost all stations tracking the pollution level in the city marked the air quality as hazardous.

 

The last time air had turned 'severe' was on October 20, a day after Diwali festivities, when firecrackers were set off.

Reportedly, more than 20 flights have been delayed/affected due to runway closure and smog at Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Moneycontrol had earlier reported that the airport operator will be shutting down one of the three runways at the Delhi airport for surface repair work from November 7 to November 10

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