Rain gods bring respite to Delhi’s choked lungs; AQI to get better in next 2 days

Updated Nov 14, 2018 | 10:41 IST | Mirror Now Digital

It was due to the rains that Air Quality Index in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurugram hovered around ‘Very Poor’ level, a tad bit better than the ‘Severe’ category on Tuesday.

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It was due to the rains that AQI in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurugram hovered around ‘Very Poor’ level.  |  Photo Credit: AP

New Delhi: The national capital region breathed a bit better after overnight drizzles helped in the mitigation of air pollution. The Delhi-NCR Air Quality Index (AQI) is expected to get even better over the coming two days. The India Meteorological Department (MeT) has predicted that there would be more spells of drizzles in the next 48 hours.

It was due to the rains that AQI in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurugram hovered around ‘Very Poor’ level, a tad bit better than the ‘Severe’ category on Tuesday. While the situation currently puts millions of citizens in Delhi-NCR at risk of respiratory ailments, the onset of showers across the region would surely bring a sigh of relief for the choked lungs of the national capital.

In the current spell of extremely high air pollution in Delhi, residents are reeling under a health emergency as per the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the central and the state governments have been rapped for non-action on this health disaster. 

The situation is compounded by vehicular pollution, construction activities in the national capital region and stubble burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana. The Chief Ministers of both the states, however, have categorically denied stubble burning as a major pollution issue saying that measures are in place to reduce stubble burning.

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With the lungs of Delhi choked-up it is now upto natural factors like rain and wind that can bring some respite to the millions living in a city that looks more like a gas chamber.    
 

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