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Delhi Environment Minister on Monday Kailash Gahlot assured to take all the necessary steps of the situation about the Air Pollution and the Air Quality remains the same after 48 Hours, "we have taken Steps to Combat the Poor Air Quality in the city and will take all the necessary steps if the situations remains the same after 48 hours". said the Environment Minister, Gahlot. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Monday sprinkled water on the roads, in Anand Vihar space to lessen the dust and the bad air quality. People Complained about difficulty in breathing and the burning sensation in the eyes as they woke in the morning, the city was in haze the day after Diwali. According to the System Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) the overall air quality of the National Capital is in the higher end of 'very poor ' category. On November 9, 2019 last year the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded at 428 that falls under the' hazardous' category. Tens of thousands of people set off firecrackers into the early hours of Monday, pushing the government air quality index beyond the top record level of 999. While the pollution was less serious than previous years, the quantity of the foremost harmful PM 2.5 pollutants was still over twenty times international safe levels at many locations within the city of twenty million individuals throughout commutation hours.
At 7:00 AM on October 28 2019, the Air Quality Index (AQI) at the city’s monitoring centre at the Indira Gandhi International airport stood at 389, compared to an AQI reading of 370 recorded at monitoring centre in Bawana in November last year. Just across the city’s eastern border in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, the AQI stood at 368. Loni in Ghaziabad had the worst air in the country with an AQI of 404 at 7 AM this morning. By 9 AM, the AQI had improved marginally to 385. At the other end of the spectrum, the air in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram had a relatively salubrious AQI reading of only 51, an improvement over last year’s AQI reading of 64. The 2.5 particulate (PM2.5) measures but a pair of 0.5 microns and may penetrate the lungs through the blood system, inflicting serious metastasis and heart diseases. A thick pollution engulfed landmarks just like the capital's Red Fort and Asian nation Gate whereas drivers had visibility cut by the haze that designed up once the Diwali vacation weekend.
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