Gurgaon air quality is ‘hazardous’ today, AQI nears 700 - Check air quality in Delhi-NCR, Noida, Jaipur & more
Social media was flooded with netizens sharing screenshots showing an AQI of 899 from 7:00 AM on November 6, as they hoped that the administration would declare a health emergency and shut schools and offices.
The air in Gurgaon (now Gurugram) turned toxic on Thursday morning, with the air quality index reaching 700 at 8:30 AM, according to AQI.in. This has pushed the air quality in Gurugram to ‘hazardous’ levels, as smog engulfed the city skies.
Social media was flooded with netizens sharing screenshots showing an AQI of 899 from 7:00 AM on November 6, as they hoped that the administration would declare a health emergency and shut schools and offices.
“Gurugram AQI is more than 800 today. It's hazardous for my kid to go out to attend school. As a parent, I request to close down schools,” said an X user.
AQI.in has termed it as bad as smoking over 9.8 cigarettes a day for Gurugram residents, and 9.2 for those in Delhi.
Delhi AQI today
Delhi, the capital city, also experienced air quality in the ‘hazardous’ category on Thursday, November 6, with an AQI of 705 recorded at 9:00 AM by AQI.in.
Over a dozen monitoring stations recorded Delhi’s air quality as hazardous today. Among the most polluted zones in Delhi were Burari, Anand Vihar, Aerocity and Bawana.
Vehicular emissions contributed 16.8 per cent, while other unidentified sources accounted for 44 per cent, according to the daily mean of local and non-local fractional contribution to PM2.5 in Delhi calculated by the Decision Support System (DSS).
Satellite data showed that on Wednesday, 94 stubble-burning cases were detected in Punjab, 13 in Haryana and 74 in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi, the wind speed was likely to decrease to below 10 kmph from the northwest direction during the evening and night hours on Wednesday.
The air quality is expected to remain in the "very poor" category between November 6 and 8, it stated.
Noida AQI
According to the latest readings by AQI.in, Noida's air quality was recorded to be over 600, which also falls in the ‘hazardous’ category.
Jaipur AQI
In Rajasthan's Jaipur, which is about 4 hours away from Delhi-NCR, the air quality was recorded to be ‘unhealthy’ at an AQI of 180. AQI.in stated that the AQI was 1.6 times higher than the average AQI in Rajasthan.
The AQI scale classifies air quality as: Good (0–50), Satisfactory (51–100), Moderately Polluted (101–200), Poor (201–300), Very Poor (301–400), and Severe (401–500). Higher AQI readings indicate increasingly unhealthy air.
(With agency inputs)