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Air Quality

Delhi-NCR air quality remains in 'very poor' category

| @indiablooms | Dec 17, 2021, at 04:55 pm

New Delhi/UNI: The air quality in Delhi and NCR continued to remain in the “very poor” category on Friday, as the Air quality Index (AQI) stood at 342, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The air quality was also in the ‘very poor’ category on Thursday as well, with an AQI of 340.

“The air quality over Delhi-NCT is likely to improve and remain in the lower end of the "very poor" category on December 17 and "poor" category on December 18-19,” IMD said in its morning bulletin.

The concentrations of PM 2.5 and PM 10 stood at 171 in the 'very poor' and 283 in the 'poor' category respectively around 10 am, as per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR).

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