00:00The national capital Delhi's air quality is improving and it has improved to poor category today.
00:05Marginal relief as compared to yesterday in the AQI levels, AQI has improved.
00:10It is driven by wind speeds in the national capital region and the wind has dispersed accumulated pollutants from the
00:18Delhi skies.
00:19And it's a breather for Delhi, which is battered by Diwali crackers and also farm fires.
00:25The overall AQI, if we talk about the AQI in Delhi, the average AQI currently stands at 299.
00:32Remember, this is in the poor category. Yesterday, it wasn't the very poor category, although we saw there was slight
00:38relief yesterday as well in the AQI levels.
00:40Yesterday's air quality in Delhi was around 310 to 311. Today, it is at 299.
00:46So it has fallen further. Yesterday, there was a slight relief because day before yesterday, it was around 367 to
00:54370.
00:55Yesterday, it was 311. Today, it has fallen down to 299. And the category has also changed because now the
01:01AQI is in the poor category.
01:04So from very poor, it has now reached the poor category.
01:08My colleague Himanshu Mishra is in fact joining us with more details on this.
01:12Today, we have seen the AQI numbers in the AQI numbers in the AQI numbers.
01:18Yesterday, it has been around 311. Today, it has been 299, which is in the category of AQI, which has
01:24also changed in the AQI category.
01:25Very poor, it has come to the poor. And what changes are you seeing on the ground?
01:33The AQI numbers in the AQI numbers in the AQI numbers are in the AQI numbers.
02:03The AQI numbers in the AQI numbers are in the AQI numbers.
02:28And the AQI numbers are in the AQI numbers.
02:58The AQI numbers are in the AQI numbers.
03:52So that's how the situation looks like on the ground.
03:54If we talk about 28 stations in the national capital are still in the very poor category,
04:00whereas there are several stations which have recorded numbers below the 300 mark.
04:04The overall AQI in the national capital is now already in the poor category from the very poor category.
04:10So the numbers have been improving since Diwali and today as well we're seeing improvement
04:16and the category of the AQI levels has also changed.
04:18Now it's in the poor category and the situation on the ground also seems to be improving
04:23because of the favourable weather conditions.
04:26So there's also politics that's happening.
04:29The blame game continues over Delhi's pollution but breathable air is nowhere in sight.
04:35The Ahmadmi Party has released Centre's data saying that it shows negligible contribution
04:41from stubble burning towards Delhi pollution on Diwali.
04:44Ahmadmi Party has claimed that farm fires contributed just 5% to Delhi's pollution on Diwali,
04:49adding that stubble burning in Punjab has declined by 95%
04:53and AQI levels across Punjab cities remained low even on Diwali.
04:57The party has also alleged that the Safar website was taken down after its pollution data was quoted.
05:04Meanwhile, most of the missing air quality data from Diwali night has been released
05:08revealing alarmingly high concentrations of particulate matter during the early hours of Monday
05:14with readings at some locations soaring several times above the prescribed limits.
05:18But Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has rejected allegations of data manipulation
05:23saying that monitoring stations are supervised by the Central Pollution Body CAQM
05:28arguing that pollution rises after Diwali every year.
05:31He has also claimed that Delhi recorded its cleanest air in a decade under the BJP government.
05:36Thank you for the support of the UK.
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06:09foreign
06:11foreign
06:12foreign
06:12to be 70% and no one can do it or no one can do it or no one can
06:20do it or no one can do it or
06:23if someone says I want to go to the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court to say that the Supreme
06:31Court
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06:38foreign
06:41This is a QI.
06:43This is a QI.
06:44This is a QI.
06:46We have seen you in the monitoring station
06:48that we have seen how we were doing
06:50and how we were doing QI.
06:54I think that the QI is living with people in Delhi.
06:58I think that in this situation,
07:01there is a heart attack,
07:02asthma attack.
07:04I think that people have increased blood pressure.
07:06That's why we have a heart attack.
07:36But not reported.
07:37That is what led to lower AQI,
07:40lower average AQI of the national capital.
07:42Now, then the DPCC,
07:45which is the Delhi Pollution Committee,
07:47later released extreme PM 2.5 levels.
07:51Missing data revealed big Diwali pollution spike.
07:53The PM 2.5 level was at 62 times safe limit in Mundka.
07:58If you talk about Jahangir Puri,
08:00the PM 2.5 had touched 4,985 mark.
08:05Opposition alleged pollution data manipulation.
08:08Opposition claimed that the government
08:09had stopped monitoring stations
08:11in order to keep the AQI levels lower.
08:14The government has promised probe
08:16and it has also blamed firecrackers
08:17and farm fires for the pollution.
