Quality of air in Delhi still ‘very poor’: SAFAR

With the slight improvement in pollution level, the air quality in the national capital was recorded in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday morning with an AQI of 309, as per System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research SAFAR. However, the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to witness bad air as Noida, which is part of the national capital region, recorded an AQI of 344 in the ‘very poor’ category. Gurugram’s AQI stood at 290 in the ‘poor category’ at 8am in on Monday morning. Speaking of other places, Dhirpur recorded an AQI of 375, Lodhi Road recorded 256, Delhi Airport (T3) recorded an AQI of 306 while Mathura road recorded an AQI of 316, Pusa recorded an AQI of 293. The AQI at Delhi University stood at 325 while IIT Delhi stood at 350 in ‘poor category.’