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Delhi's aerial prime nosedived connected Monday (October 20, 2025), the Deepavali afternoon, arsenic contamination levels astatine 31 retired of 38 monitoring stations redlined astatine 'very poor', and 'severe' astatine 3 stations.
According to the SAMEER app by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi recorded an wide AQI of 334 astatine noon, compared to 339 astatine 9 a.m.
Thirty-one monitoring stations reported aerial prime successful the 'very poor' class with AQI levels supra 300, portion 3 stations – Anand Vihar (402), Wazirpur (423), and Ashok Vihar (414) – logged contamination to beryllium successful the 'severe' category.
The aerial prime is expected to deteriorate further into the 'severe' class much wide connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025) and Wednesday (October 22, 2025).
An AQI betwixt 0 and 50 is considered 'good', 51 to 100 'satisfactory', 101 to 200 'moderate', 201 to 300 'poor', 301 to 400 'very poor', and 401 to 500 'severe.'
Earlier, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) invoked Stage II of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) crossed Delhi-NCR.
The determination came aft the reappraisal of the sub-committee connected GRAP connected Saturday (October 18, 2025) and forecasts by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
On October 15, the Supreme Court allowed the merchantability and bursting of greenish firecrackers successful Delhi-NCR betwixt 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. and again from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. connected the time of Deepavali and a time before.
Meanwhile, the metropolis recorded a minimum somesthesia of 20.2 degrees Celsius astatine 8.30 a.m.
The IMD has predicted fog mist successful the greeting and chiefly wide entity aboriginal successful the day.
The maximum somesthesia is expected to beryllium 33 degrees Celsius.
