00:00The Delhi AQI levels are slightly improving. It has improved. It is now in the poor category,
00:05but there's no end to farm fires in Punjab. If you talk about this season, as of now,
00:10more than 5,000 farm fire cases have been reported and Patiala has recorded 339 cases in this
00:20season. Paddy harvesting season continues. Farm fires also continue in Punjab, although there's
00:26marginal relief in the national capital. The AQI numbers are improving. But if we talk about
00:32Punjab, there the stubble burning cases continue. More than 5,000 cases have already been reported
00:37and the AQI, although in the national capital, is improving if we compare it to the numbers that
00:43were being reported near Diwali and even after Diwali. But there has been improvement. In fact,
00:48we're now in the poor category from the very poor category, which we've been seeing in the last few
00:53days. And this is driven by wind speeds in the national capital region. The wind has dispersed,
00:59accumulated pollutants from Delhi skies. So it's a breather for Delhi residents, which was battered
01:04by Diwali crackers and also farm fires. But farm fires are not ending. In fact, the cases are only
01:10increasing. So far, 5,000 cases have been reported and the maximum cases were reported on the Diwali day,
01:17which was above the 1,000 mark. Yesterday, if we talk about the air quality in Delhi, it was around
01:24310. Today, the AQI level is at 299, which is in the poor category. So over 28 stations in the
01:33national capital have, in fact, recorded AQI above the 300 mark, which is in the very poor category.
01:38Chawla remains a hotspot. But there are several other stations which have recorded the AQI in the poor
01:44category, which means below 300. My colleague Kamaljeet Sandhu is now joining us with more
01:50details on this. Kamaljeet, a very good morning to you. So although the pollution crisis in Delhi is
01:55marginally improving, there's a slight improvement in the AQI numbers. But if you talk about the numbers
02:00of farm fires, they are constantly increasing. There's no end to farm fire in Punjab.
02:07Well, there should be some good news soon. The reason is that Punjab's total paddy area is around
02:1332.87 lakh hectares. And harvesting has always been complete in 96.10% of it. So that means just
02:21about 4% is left. That means most of the stubble burning is already being done. Now, even as the
02:27harvest season ends its final phase, the stubble burning incident remains a challenge, especially
02:32for the pollution control board. Now, it has crossed the 5,000 mark. Just about 345 new incidents were
02:38added. Now, the new areas, particularly are Sangroor, Patiala. And the biggest jump that we've seen
02:44is in Pirotpur. Tarantaran, however, leaves in Muslimi cases. There has just been a marginal rise
02:51of 17 cases. Now, what is also significant is there has been prosecution which has been initiated
02:57against 18 supervisory officers. But also, it means that it's not chart sheet or any sort of punitive
03:06action. But definitely, this is something which has seen a lot of blame game between the Amabi
03:11Party and the DGP. But over the next few days, what we're going to see is the respite as the
03:16number of
03:17cases go down, as the harvest season is almost complete, and new crops will be sown in. But this is
03:23a
03:23perennial issue. And it should not come just about just only for one month when the air quality goes
03:29worse. It needs a problem-solving mechanism. And perhaps there needs to be more thinking which
03:35needs to go, especially by both centre and the state.
03:39Kamalji, do stay with us. So there's some good news as far as the pollution level is concerned,
03:43because the farm fires are in its final stage. This is what my colleague Kamalji was telling us.
03:49So the number of cases might not increase much in the coming days, as most of the
03:55stubble burning has already been done. Meanwhile, my colleague Himanshu Mishra is also joining us from
04:01the national capital. He's joining us from the North Place with the latest how it looks like on the
04:05ground today. Himanshu, the AQI levels, there's an improvement in the ground. How many improvements
04:12are you getting to see in the Karnot Place? And which of these areas are in Delhi, which are
04:16the hotspots in Delhi, the AQI levels are also very high.
04:20So there are 59 stations where data are collected, and there are 58 stations where data are collected
04:47and there are 58 stations where data are collected, and there are 58 stations where data are collected.
04:58So there are 58 stations where data are collected, construction, traffic, and other states, which are
05:12ुपे किस तरीके का impact आ रहा है यह सब मिला करके
05:16AQI जो है अपने label का fix होता है आप देखे तो
05:19आनन्द विहार पे ISBT है UP से 60 हुआ है गाजियाबाद
05:23border है वहाँ पर AQI आम तोर पे डिली में जो
05:27overall AQI का 290 है तो आनन्द विहार का around 340 के
05:32आसपास दर्ज होता है गाजियाबाद में अगर आप जाएं गाजियाबाद को
05:36overall आज 300 के करीब है लेकिन लोनी के ऐसे इलाके है जो
05:40लोनी के तरफ आप चले जाएए तो वहाँ पर AQI जो overall गाजियाबाद है
05:44करी 5.50 पॉइंट ऐसा हमेशा राइस पर ही रहेगा करनाट प्रेस की तस्मीर अगर आप सीधे
05:50रोड पर आप देखेंगे तो दूर आपको स्मॉग नजर आएगा धुआ है पल्यूशन है साफ नजर आ रहा है सडक
05:58पर
05:58पल्यूशन है लेकिन इस्थिती थोड़ी बहतर हुई है और इस्थिती बहतर होने की वज़ा है जो मौसम में
06:05changes हुए है अंजली जो हवा चलनी शुरू हुई है दिवाली की राज से उसका impact देखने को मिला है
06:11कि जो पूरा धुआ क्योंकि आशंका क्या थी
06:14अंजली की दिवाली के अगले दिन AQI जो एक्स्ट्रीम देखा जाएगा जो पूरा आस्मान है वो धुए से भरा हो
06:22सकता है लेकिन हवा का हवा चलने का फाइदा नजर आया साफ नजर आया जो मौसम में परिवर्तन है
06:28So the favourable weather conditions have also contributed to the situation improving in the national capital, although there are several
06:37stations which have still recorded AQI levels of the very poor category, but the overall AQI in the national capital
06:44is still improving and is now in the poor category.
06:50Meanwhile, the blame game over Delhi pollution continues. The Aam Admi Party has released Centre's Suffer data saying that it
06:57shows a negligible contribution from stubble burning towards Delhi pollution on Diwali.
07:02Aam Admi Party has claimed that farm fires contributed just 5% to Delhi pollution on Diwali, adding that stubble
07:09burning in Punjab has declined by 95% and AQI levels across Punjab cities remained low even on Diwali.
07:16The party has also alleged that the Suffer website was taken down after its pollution data was quoted.
07:22Meanwhile, most of the missing air quality data from Diwali night has been released, revealing alarmingly high concentrations of particulate
07:30matter during the early hours of Monday, with readings at some locations soaring several times above the prescribed limits.
07:37But Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa has rejected the allegations of data manipulation, saying that monitoring stations are supervised
07:44by the Central Pollution Body, CAQM, arguing that pollution rises after Diwali every year.
07:50Sirsa has also claimed that Delhi recorded its cleanest air in a decade under the BJP government.
07:58Let's now take a look at the missing smog data mystery in the national capital.
08:04So the Diwali smog data went missing in dozens of stations on November 8, which was the Diwali day, and
08:10the subsequent day, November 9.
08:12Up to 45 stations went offline for hours during peak pollution on Diwali day.
08:18The missing data lowered AQI as many stations stopped reporting.
08:21So because numbers were not reported, the overall AQI of the national capital was lower.
08:26Then the Pollution Committee later released the extreme PM 2.5 levels.
08:32The missing data revealed big Diwali pollution spike.
08:35The PM 2.5 level was at 62 times safe limit in Mundga.
08:39If you talk about Johangir Puri, the PM 2.5 had touched 4,985, which was exponentially higher.
08:47The opposition alleged that pollution data was being manipulated by the government.
08:52The opposition claimed that the government stopped monitoring stations in order to keep the overall AQI levels lower.
08:58The government has meanwhile promised probe and it has also blamed the firecrackers and farm fires for the pollution crisis.
