Delhi air quality in ‘severe’ category
On Friday, 86 of the 100 most polluted cities globally were in India.
Black News 
The average Air Quality Index in Delhi worsened to the “severe” category on Friday.
At 8.05 am, the average AQI in the national capital was 403, which is categorised as “severe”, according to data from the Sameer application, which provides hourly updates published by the Central Pollution Control Board.
Twenty-eight of the 58 active monitoring stations in the national capital recorded AQI levels above 400.
The reading at the Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi, was the worst in the city at 488.
Private air quality monitors, which calculate the data differently, recorded an average AQI of 594 in the national capital at 7.30 am, which is categorised as “hazardous”.
In some parts of the city, such as southern Delhi’s Railway Colony, and Rameshwar Nagar and Samaypur in north Delhi, the AQI was above 800, showed data from AQI.in.
The average AQI in adjoining Noida was also “severe” at 474, showed data from the Central Pollution Control Board at 8.05 am.
Other cities near the capital recorded “very poor” air quality. The AQI in Gurugram was 352, Ghaziabad 369 and Greater Noida 351.
On Friday, 86 of the 100 most polluted cities globally were in India, showed data from AQI.in.
#WATCH | Delhi | Air Quality Index (AQI) around AIIMS is 418, categorised as 'Severe', as per the CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board).
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