Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has dubbed the Capital’s air quality “fatal” even as the four monitoring stations put a “severe” warning on the air quality of the city on Wednesday. It was most polluted at the Anand Vihar ISBT, followed by Punjabi Bagh and RK Puram.
As per a report on Hindustan Times, the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) officials Thursday’s air would be the season’s most polluted, but things will marginally improve on Friday and Saturday. The impact of cold weather conditions and burning of agricultural waste in the crop fields in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab are the culprits.
“As Thursday is expected to be cloudy, cold and thundery, the concentration of pollutants in the air will increase. Pollution will peak and will come down relatively in the next two days,” Beig said. Health minister Jain, too, acknowledged the spike in pollutants in the air, saying it is a big problem for Delhi where air quality has reached a “fatal” level.
