{"id":69198,"date":"2020-11-10T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=69198"},"modified":"2020-11-10T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:24:44","slug":"air-quality-index-aqi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-quality-index-aqi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality Index (AQI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launched by the Environment Ministry, under \u2018Swachh Bharat\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Colour coded<\/strong>: AQI act as \u2018One Number- One Colour-One Description\u2019 to judge the Air Quality for Common Man to judge the air quality within his vicinity<\/li>\n<li>Central Pollution Control Board along with State Pollution Control Boards has been operating National Air Monitoring Program (NAMP) covering 240 cities of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real time monitoring<\/strong>: Continuous monitoring systems that provide data on near real-time basis are also installed in a few cities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AQI categories<\/strong>: There are six AQI categories-<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good, Satisfactory, Moderately polluted, Poor, Very Poor, and Severe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>List of 8 pollutants<\/strong>: for which short-term (up to 24-hourly averaging period) National Ambient Air Quality Standards are prescribed.<\/li>\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<\/ul>\n<p>Lead (Pb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched by the Environment Ministry, under \u2018Swachh Bharat\u2019 Colour coded: AQI act as \u2018One Number- One Colour-One Description\u2019 to judge the Air Quality for Common Man to judge the air quality within his vicinity Central Pollution Control Board along with State Pollution Control Boards has been operating National Air Monitoring Program (NAMP) covering 240 cities&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-quality-index-aqi-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":11,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698335051},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198","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=69198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}