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Of the 16 cities with their aerial prime categorised arsenic “severe” and “very poor” a time aft Deepavali, arsenic per the Central Pollution Control Board information released connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025), 10 are from Haryana, making it the State worst deed by the aerial contamination successful the aftermath of the festival of lights.
Jind, astir 130 km north-west of Delhi, fared the worst connected CPCB’s regular Air Quality Index (AQI) for October 21, showing mean of past 24 hours astatine 4 pm, with the scale worth of 421, categorised arsenic the “severe”. It is the highest among the 271 cities that figures connected the CPCB regular data. The aerial prime for the metropolis fell drastically from 248 connected October 20 afternoon, earlier the Diwali night.
It was intimately followed by Dharuhera, a large concern hub successful Rewari, with the scale worth astatine 412. The aerial prime for the municipality recorded a autumn of much than a 100 points from 305 connected October 20, and was categorised arsenic “severe” from “very poor” earlier.
Narnaul, different municipality successful South Haryana, deed “very poor” class of aerial prime with the scale worth astatine 390.
The aerial prime successful Haryana’s IT hub, Gurugram, excessively deteriorated from “poor” to “very poor” class with the autumn successful scale worth from 295 to 370 wrong 24 hours. Manesar, an automotive manufacture hub adjoining Gurugram city, besides recorded “very poor” aerial prime astatine 320.
The aerial prime successful Bhiwani and its neighbouring territory Charkhi Dadri dropped considerably during the Diwali to grounds scale values of 327 and 353 respectively, ending up successful “very poor” category.
Bahadurgarh, Rohtak and Sirsa excessively recorded “very poor” aerial prime with the scale values astatine 368, 376 and 353 respectively.
