{"id":69183,"date":"2020-11-10T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=69183"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:45:08","slug":"national-air-quality-index-aqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-air-quality-index-aqi\/","title":{"rendered":"National Air Quality Index (AQI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AQI values and corresponding ambient concentrations (health breakpoints), as well as associated likely health impacts for the identified eight pollutants, are as follows:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ambient Air Quality Standards in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.envfor.nic.in\/legis\/air\/air1.html\">Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981<\/a>\u00a0was enacted by the Central Government with the objective of arresting the deterioration of air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The current National Ambient Air Quality Standards were notified on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpcb.nic.in\/upload\/Latest\/Latest_48_FINAL_AIR_STANDARD.pdf\">18 November 2009<\/a>\u00a0by the Central Pollution Control Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of 12 pollutants <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Particulate Matter (size less than 10 \u00b5m) or (PM<sub>10<\/sub>),<\/li>\n<li>Particulate Matter (size less than 2.5 \u00b5m) or (PM<sub>5<\/sub>),<\/li>\n<li>Nitrogen Dioxide (NO<sub>2<\/sub>),<\/li>\n<li>Sulphur Dioxide (SO<sub>2<\/sub>),<\/li>\n<li>Carbon Monoxide (CO),<\/li>\n<li>Ozone (O<sub>3<\/sub>),<\/li>\n<li>Ammonia (NH<sub>3<\/sub>), and<\/li>\n<li>Lead (Pb)<\/li>\n<li>Benzene -C<sub>6<\/sub>H<sub>6<\/sub><\/li>\n<li>Benzo(a)Pyrene (BaP)<\/li>\n<li>Arsenic (As)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nickel (Ni)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AQI values and corresponding ambient concentrations (health breakpoints), as well as associated likely health impacts for the identified eight pollutants, are as follows:\u00a0 Ambient Air Quality Standards in India The\u00a0Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981\u00a0was enacted by the Central Government with the objective of arresting the deterioration of air quality. The current&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-air-quality-index-aqi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Air Quality Index (AQI)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698279439},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183","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\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}