The air quality in Mumbai remained in the 'Moderate' category on Saturday, with the Air Quality Index at 153, as per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)-India. (File Pic)
The overall air quality in Mumbai continues to remain in moderate category. However, the air quality in Bandra-Kurla Complex (Kala Nagar) deteriorated to poor category where AQI was recorded at 242 at 1 PM
The air quality in Bhandup stood in moderate category with Air Quality Index at 154. In Colaba, the Air Quality Index was recorded 135 in moderate category at 1 pm,
Meanwhile, the air quality in the national capital, New Delhi, improved marginally to 'very poor' from 'severe' on Saturday morning.
The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) in the Capital dropped from 461 at 7 am on Friday to 398 this morning, settling in the 'very poor' category.
However, the downward shift in the air quality index was of little respite to residents as a dense, toxic haze continued to shroud the city.
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR-India), the air quality index at Ghazipur was recorded at 398 at 7.15 am on Saturday.
Amid the prevailing concerns about high levels of air pollution, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai, on Friday, sought the Centre's intervention in reversing the city's declining air quality.
"This situation is persisting in all of north India. Besides Delhi, 12 districts of neighbouring Haryana are recording air quality in the 'severe' range. There are 14 locations in Rajasthan as well where the air quality has deteriorated. Several districts in western Uttar Pradesh, too, have reported a similar situation," Rai told ANI on Friday.
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