Delhi air quality continues to fall as capital turns into a gas chamber

• Thursday | 18th October, 2018

Air Quality of #Delhi's Lodhi Road area: PM 2.5 and PM 10 remain in 'poor' category at 224 and 272 respectively. On Thursday, the air quality at Delhi’s Lodhi Road remained in the “poor” quality and the AQI was recorded at 224 and 272 for PM 2.5 and PM 10, respectively. The national capital is gearing up to turn into a gas chamber as the air quality deteriorated to the ‘very poor’ category on Wednesday, the first in this season, with several places in the national capital nearing alarming levels of pollution, according to authorities. Concerned over the alarming air quality in the national capital, Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain demands immediate halt on activities, including crop stubble burning and garbage, which considered a contributing cause for pollution in Delhi-NCR. Among the meteorological factors behind the falling air quality, the main reason was the drop and change of wind speed, which was now flowing from the stubble-burning areas, CPCB official said.