New Delhi: It was audibly clear that the ban on firecrackers had found scant respect in the city on Diwali, so it wasn’t surprising that the PM2.5 aerosols hit a spike and reached levels matching those of 2020 both on the day of the festival and a day later on Friday.
CPCB data put the average PM2.5 level in Delhi on Thursday midnight at 309 microgram per cubic metre against the safe standard of 60 microgram. This rose to 432.6 microgram per cubic metre by 4pm on Friday.
At Dilshad Garden — one of the predetermined 13 pollution hotspots in the capital — the PM2.5 level went up from 306.65 micrograms per cubic metre midnight to 997 by 1am on Friday. Last year on Diwali, the concentration was measured as rising from 332 microgram per cubic metre to 874.2 in the same timeframe. RK Puram, another hotspot, similarly suffered an adverse spike of PM2.5 from 220.7 micrograms per cubic metre at midnight to 926.5 an hour later.
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