PM 2.5 set to rise bringing down Delhi's air quality

Dec 09, 2015

Air quality of Delhi will dip further in the next two days with an expected rise in the level of PM 2.5, whose average was 'very poor' at 200 micrograms per cubic metre on Tuesday, due to the influx of pollutants from the Indo-gangetic plains. Levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10, pollutants of microscopic sizes, were largely in the 'very poor' category in Centre's System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) stations.

However, few CPCB stations like Anand Vihar, Mandir Marg, Punjabi Bagh and R K Puram had air quality in the 'severe' category which has the potential to affect healthy people and "seriously impact" those with existing respiratory ailments. "24-hour average of PM 2.5 was 200 today. On Monday it was 189 while on Wednesday it is expected to touch 210. It is due to influx of pollutants from distant sources, mostly due to the north-easterlies from the Indo-gangetic plains, an area which stretches from Kolkata to Rajasthan," Chief Project Scientist of SAFAR Gufran Beig said.

Source: IBNLive