Delhi AQI rises to 117; Jahangirpuri records 243

Delhi’s air quality index rose to 117 on Saturday, after a one-day spell in the ‘satisfactory’ category, when the AQI stood at 60 on Friday.

Friday’s reading was Delhi’s cleanest October air in four years. On Saturday, 32 of the city’s 58 monitoring stations recorded ‘moderate’ air, 24 recorded ‘satisfactory’ levels and two recorded ‘poor’ air. Jahangirpuri posted the highest reading, at 243, while Punjabi Bagh recorded 212.

The Air Quality Early Warning System forecasts ‘moderate’ to ‘poor’ air on Sunday and expects ‘poor’ to ‘very poor’ air quality over the following six days.

The Decision Support System estimated that stubble burning accounted for 19.1% of Delhi’s pollution on Saturday. Transport contributed 16.3%, followed by Gurugram at 6.5%, Jhajjar at 5%, Faridabad at 4.3% and Gautam Buddh Nagar at 3.7%.