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However, on Thursday —the day after Diwali— the AQI shot up to 389 (very poor). GURUGRAM: The city this year breathed the cleanest air on Diwali in five years, and the Supreme Court’s order to allow only sale of green crackers in Delhi and NCR definitely had a role to play. On Thursday morning, the AQI reached the ‘hazardous’ category but the level came down to ‘very poor’ by evening. “I inspected a few locations wherein the MCG sprinkled water, which helped disperse particulate matters from the lower atmosphere,” he said.Experts, on the other hand, said the decline in the level of air pollution was very negligible. Also, the biometric pressure this year is higher than that of the last year..