High 10 most polluted cities in India: Patna tops the chart with 544 AQI

Many Indian states are witnessing worsening air high quality. After a number of components of Delhi-NCR obtained mild rainfall on Friday, the air pollution stage has dropped within the nationwide capital. The rain which introduced a serious aid from hazardous air lingering over the nationwide capital for 2 weeks has prompted the Delhi authorities to postpone the implementation of the odd-even automotive rationing scheme.

As per SAFAR knowledge at 8:30 am, the general AQI within the Delhi stands at 201 which is in ‘very poor’ class. On Friday, the rain in components of Haryana and Punjab additionally introduced the mercury down by just a few notches with AQI ranges witnessing a slight enchancment. Talking of probably the most polluted cities in India as of 11 November, as per aqi.in knowledge, Patna topped the record of probably the most polluted cities whereas Bali in West Bengal stood second with AQI recording at 530 and 409 respectively.

At quantity 3, one other West Bengal metropolis, Kamarhati, which is within the North 24 Parganas district recorded AQI at 405 whereas Bihar’s Bhagalpur metropolis ranked at quantity 4 with AQI at 389, as per aqi.in knowledge. Different West Bengal cities taking the quantity fifth, sixth and seventh spot are Rishra within the Hoogly district, Panihati and Titagarh within the North 24 Parganas recording AQI at 384, 376 and 374 respectively.

Shrirampur in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district ranked at quantity 8 with AQI at 370. West Bengal’s Khardah recorded AQI at 369 whereas Madhya Pradesh’s Indore took the tenth spot with AQI at 353, as per aqi.in knowledge.

Talking of SAFAR knowledge at 9 am, these areas in Delhi additionally recorded AQI in ‘poor’ and ‘average’ class air. Delhi College, Dhirpur, Noida, Gurugram, Pusa, Mathura highway, Airport t3, IIT Delhi recorded AQI at 269, 204, 176,135, 228, 218 respectively.

Earlier on Friday, the Delhi Atmosphere Minister Gopal Rai wrote to Uttar Pradesh and Haryana transport ministers requesting them to make sure that vans carrying non-essential items are diverted by way of peripheral expressways to keep away from site visitors jams on the capital’s borders. He had urged that every one the non-destined automobiles needs to be diverted by way of Jap and Western Peripheral Expressway proper at their entry factors earlier than Delhi Border.