{"id":313696,"date":"2024-10-18T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=313696"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:12:51","slug":"haze-engulfs-delhi-set-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haze-engulfs-delhi-set-to-get-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Haze engulfs Delhi, set to get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <em>Yesterday, air quality in Delhi inched towards the \u2018very poor\u2019 category, with Air Quality Index (AQI) being recorded as 283. The Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has already invoked Stage 1 of GRAP after AQI dropped significantly in Delhi post- Dussehra celebrations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Air Quality Index (AQI): It is a tool used by the government agencies to track air pollution levels and communicate risks to the public.<\/p>\n<p>2. The National Air Quality Index is released by the Central Pollution Control Board.<\/p>\n<p>3. There are 6 AQI categories, namely Good (0-50), Satisfactory (51-100), Moderately Polluted (101-200), Poor (201-300), Very Poor (301-400), Severe (401-500).<\/p>\n<p>4. Pollutants measured by AQI include Nitrogen Dioxide, PM 10, PM 2.5, Ozone etc.<\/p>\n<p>5. Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP): It is an emergency response mechanism that is implemented to prevent further deterioration of air quality once it reaches a certain threshold in the Delhi-NCR region.<\/p>\n<p>6. The 4 stages of GRAP system are: A) Stage 1: Poor AQI 201-300 B) Stage 2: Very Poor AQI 301-400 C) Stage 3: Severe AQI 401-450 D) Stage 4: Severe Plus AQI &gt;450.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Yesterday, air quality in Delhi inched towards the \u2018very poor\u2019 category, with Air Quality Index (AQI) being recorded as 283. The Commission on Air Quality Management (CAQM) has already invoked Stage 1 of GRAP after AQI dropped significantly in Delhi post- Dussehra celebrations. 1. Air Quality Index (AQI): It is a tool used by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haze-engulfs-delhi-set-to-get-worse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haze engulfs Delhi, set to get worse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knolls","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}