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After celebrating Diwali with full pomp and show, Delhi’s air quality has now slipped into a hazardous category. In the early morning of Friday. the particulate matter (PM) 2.5 concentration was recorded at 655.07 in Janpath on Friday morning.
Meanwhile, the Delhi government put up a complete ban on the sale and bursting of firecrackers, including crackers, on Diwali. However, the decision went for a toss as people were seen bursting crackers and this air quality is now proof.
Earlier, on Thursday, the air quality dipped to severe quality as around 8 pm it was above 382. And, now the next morning of Diwali, the air quality has slipped to a hazardous level.
People also complained of itchy throat and watery eyes after a thick smog surrounded NCR skies.
In the neighbouring cities, the air quality has dipped to severe and hazardous quality and in Faridbada it is 424, Ghaziabad (442), Gurgaon (423) and Noida (431).
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the air quality is not likely to improve until November 7 evening. It is reported that the improvement will be that it will be shifted to the very poor category.
According to the SAFAR model, the air quality between zero and 50 is considered good and around 1200 it is considered satisfactory and 200 means it is moderate. Above 200 and in between 300 is considered as poor, above 400 is very poor and the air quality above this mark is considered in the severe and hazardous category.
Earlier, the SAFAR said that if firecrackers are burned even 50 per cent of last year then PM2.5 will enter the ‘severe’ category by midnight and shoot up rapidly by today early morning with AQI even crossing 500.