00:00And now shifting focus, even though Delhi's air quality showed slight improvement on Thursday,
00:05it remained in the very poor category for the fourth consecutive day.
00:09As the capital seeks respite, it is preparing to witness its first ever artificial rain through cloud seeding on October 29th.
00:16The first trial of the project has been successfully conducted.
00:20A cloud seeding flight was tested on Thursday in Buradi and other areas where cloud seeding flares were deployed using pyro techniques.
00:27Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has confirmed that if clouds persist over the capital,
00:31as predicted by the Met Department, artificial rain will be induced on October 29th across multiple areas.
00:39Now the rainfall generated is likely to help reduce pollution levels.
00:43The Chief Minister has called the project historic from a technological perspective,
00:47highlighting its role as a scientific solution to tackle air pollution.
00:57So the first thing is, this is the first right thing where the northern part of India is supported.
01:03The trud part of the country is expected to take a Peach's work and the middle part of India is expected to wake up as a national level.
01:09After that, the changes of war, the international State here are still on October 29th.
01:13The rest of the country will ensure that this state of India will be better and better in order to ensure that the爾 sands are pushed out.
01:17.
01:47We have no chance to leave any of these places.
01:49When the people of the country have been a majority of six,
01:54they have been doing their own.
01:57We are trying to stop the people of Punjab and Punjab.
02:01We have to stop the problems of our lives.
02:04We have to stop the people of the country.
02:07We have to stop the people of the country.
02:10I'm going to leave this video with all the people in the country,
02:17we have given them this issue.
02:20Then we will make all the curious people,
02:22just in Punjab,
02:23I don't want to say it.
02:24We can't say that these people,
02:25but we can't say it.
02:26We can't say it.
02:27We can't say it.
02:32We can't say it.
02:32But we can't say it.
02:35It says that it will not be the same thing.
02:37Just in Punjab,
02:38we can't say it.
02:39So air quality in Delhi has plunged again. Most parts of the city are breathing very poor air.
02:45As pollution levels spike across Delhi, India today has found that the city's air quality display boards
02:51meant to warn the citizens aren't even working. Take a look at this report.
03:02Pollution spikes once again in the national capital, with air quality dipping to very poor levels.
03:08Across Delhi, most air monitoring stations are recording PM 2.5 levels above 300, squarely in very poor category.
03:19At several stations, readings have crossed 400, touching the severe mark.
03:26Delhi has 39 air quality monitoring stations, all functional according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
03:33But what's missing are the display boards meant to inform the public.
03:38India Today's ground check found that at Lothi Road, near the Indian Med Department office,
03:45the AQI display is completely non-functional.
03:47It's written below the display board that this is the air quality display system for the Indian Meteorological Department.
03:56That is one of the stations, out of the 39 stations, where the DPCC, which is the Delhi Pollution Control Board,
04:02as well as the Central Pollution Control Board, display their air quality index.
04:07While the board may not be working, but when you look at the CPCB website for National Air Quality Index,
04:13on Lothi Road today, the pollution level is at 312, which is in the very poor category.
04:21This is the Lothi Road data only for today, at this particular time.
04:26At ITO, another key CPCB station, the readings on display have remained unchanged for the last two days.
04:34The data hasn't been updated at all.
04:37The current AQI on this Pollution Index Board, which is part of the monitoring station at ITO,
04:47is currently showing a PM 2.5 of 113 unit micrograms per meter.
04:54I've opened this here.
04:56Delhi is in the very poor category of 320.
05:00So, this is the app that actually shows the pollution level.
05:06And even if you go on the CPCB website, for the ITO station, if I can just increase the brightness,
05:14the ITO CPCB station shows pollution at 339.
05:19The situation is similar across other stations too.
05:23In a city gasping for clean air, the least people deserve is to see how bad it is.
05:29With Milan Sharma in New Delhi, Bureau Report, India Today.
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