Via PTI
CHANDIGARH: After Diwali, a number of portions of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday morning recorded air high quality within the ‘deficient’ and ‘very deficient’ classes.
Gurugram in Haryana and Ludhiana in Punjab reported their respective air high quality index (AQI) at 313 and 269 at 10:10 am, in keeping with the Central Air pollution Regulate Board’s (CPCB) information.
Amongst different districts, Faridabad, Charkhi Dadri, Bhiwani, Ambala, Bahadurgarh, Sonipat, Jind, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, and Panipat reported their AQI at 311, 301, 291, 241, 279, 214, 296, 211, 276 and 192 respectively.
In Punjab, Amritsar, Mandi Gobindgarh, Patiala, Jalandhar and Khanna the AQI used to be recorded at 249, 208, 225, 260 and 212 respectively — all within the ‘deficient’ class.
An AQI between 0 and 50 is thought of as ‘excellent’, 51 and 100 ‘sufficient’, 101 and 200 ‘average’, 201 and 300 ‘deficient’, 301 and 400 ‘very deficient’, and 401 and 500 ‘serious’.
The AQI within the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the joint capital of the 2 states, used to be recorded at 178.
The Punjab executive had allowed a window of 2 hours from 8 pm until 10 pm for bursting firecrackers on Diwali whilst the Haryana executive had allowed simplest inexperienced crackers within the state.
Farm fires additionally endured at many puts in Punjab and Haryana.
Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is among the causes at the back of the alarming spike in air air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital in October and November.
Because the window for Rabi crop wheat may be very quick after paddy harvest, farmers set their fields on fireplace to temporarily transparent off the crop residue.
CHANDIGARH: After Diwali, a number of portions of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday morning recorded air high quality within the ‘deficient’ and ‘very deficient’ classes.
Gurugram in Haryana and Ludhiana in Punjab reported their respective air high quality index (AQI) at 313 and 269 at 10:10 am, in keeping with the Central Air pollution Regulate Board’s (CPCB) information.
Amongst different districts, Faridabad, Charkhi Dadri, Bhiwani, Ambala, Bahadurgarh, Sonipat, Jind, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, and Panipat reported their AQI at 311, 301, 291, 241, 279, 214, 296, 211, 276 and 192 respectively.
In Punjab, Amritsar, Mandi Gobindgarh, Patiala, Jalandhar and Khanna the AQI used to be recorded at 249, 208, 225, 260 and 212 respectively — all within the ‘deficient’ class.
An AQI between 0 and 50 is thought of as ‘excellent’, 51 and 100 ‘sufficient’, 101 and 200 ‘average’, 201 and 300 ‘deficient’, 301 and 400 ‘very deficient’, and 401 and 500 ‘serious’.
The AQI within the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the joint capital of the 2 states, used to be recorded at 178.
The Punjab executive had allowed a window of 2 hours from 8 pm until 10 pm for bursting firecrackers on Diwali whilst the Haryana executive had allowed simplest inexperienced crackers within the state.
Farm fires additionally endured at many puts in Punjab and Haryana.
Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is among the causes at the back of the alarming spike in air air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital in October and November.
Because the window for Rabi crop wheat may be very quick after paddy harvest, farmers set their fields on fireplace to temporarily transparent off the crop residue.