The national capital witnessed a marginal improvement in air quality on Friday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) falling into the \u2018poor\u2019 category and averaging 292, according to official data.<\/p>\n
The improvement comes after Delhi recorded \u2018severe\u2019 air quality levels earlier this week, with the AQI touching 412 on December 23. Over the past two days, a gradual decline in pollution levels has been observed across several parts of the city.<\/p>\n
Data from the Central Pollution Control Board\u2019s (CPCB) Sameer mobile application showed that, as of 6.05 a.m., three monitoring stations reported air quality in the \u2018moderate\u2019 category. These included Lodhi Road-IITM with an AQI of 160, Lodhi Road-IMD at 194, and Najafgarh at 188.<\/p>\n
Several other stations recorded AQI levels in the \u2018poor\u2019 category. These included Aya Nagar (212), CRRI Mathura Road (265), Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range (290), Dwarka Sector 8 (282), IGI Airport Terminal 3 (238), IIT Delhi (231), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (253), and Mandir Marg (222), among others.<\/p>\n
However, a number of monitoring stations continued to report \u2018very poor\u2019 air quality. Areas such as Anand Vihar (377), Bawana (363), Jahangirpuri (372), Narela (345), Nehru Nagar (346), Sonia Vihar (353), and Vivek Vihar (361) recorded some of the highest pollution levels in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national capital witnessed a marginal improvement in air quality on Friday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,151050,137077,42917,181668,451,2344,181669,99918,3,181666,452,453,181667,3061],"class_list":{"0":"post-370562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-delhi-aqi","11":"tag-delhi-pollution","12":"tag-delhi-weather","13":"tag-gujarat-earthquake","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-india-weather-today","17":"tag-new-year","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nigeria-us-attack","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-us-attack-nigeria","23":"tag-us-india-trade-deal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}