New Delhi: As the firecracker ban went up in smoke on yet another Diwali night in the capital, Delhi-NCR choked on a cocktail of noxious gases a day after the festival of lights, with the city’s air quality breaching the “severe” category for the first time this season.
Delhi’s overall Air Quality Index was 462 on Friday, deep in the severe zone. This was the worst AQI the city has seen the day after Diwali since monitoring began in 2015. Delhi also recorded the sharpest deterioration in AQI since 2015, from the day before Diwali (AQI 314 ) to the day after.
The widespread flouting of the Supreme Court order banning firecrackers added to other factors, creating a “perfect storm” of dirty air over the region. The wind direction and low wind speeds facilitated the transport of farm fire pollutants from neighbouring states. The share of pollution from stubble-burning in Delhi’s AQI rose from 25% on Thursday to 36% on Friday, the highest so far this season.
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