Delhi air quality remains ‘poor’ for third consecutive day

The overall air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the ‘poor’ category for the third straight day on Saturday morning, as per the SAFAR-India.

According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)-India, the overall air quality in the national capital is in the ‘poor’ category with an AQI of 286. After being in the ‘moderate’ category with an AQI of 190 on Wednesday, the city’s AQI has been in the ‘poor’ category since then with 256 on Thursday and 249 on Friday.In the Delhi University area and Pusa, the quality of air was recorded as ‘very poor’ and ‘poor’ with AQI at 316 and 201, respectively at 7 am today.