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Four years ago, the AAP installed a smog tower in Delhi’s Connaught Place at a cost of Rs 22 crore. Now, the BJP has decided to install 150 air purifiers at Nehru Park in a pilot project to clean Delhi’s unbreathable air. It begs the question – do these really…

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry reached the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on World Environment Day. The AQI at the nearest monitoring station was pegged at 137 or in the moderate category, as per the CPCB data. 

Over the past few years, IIT-Delhi has come up with several studies on the state of air pollution in India. Does pollution impact the institute as well?

A petition before the National Green Tribunal had recently claimed that many Delhi government vehicles pollute without consequence. An analysis of a list of 107 vehicles found that at least 66 official vehicles lacked a pollution under control certificate.  

A recent report revealed that levels of particulate concentration in 33 cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme had shot up in the last financial year.

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits a pollution checking centre that issues PUC certificates to vehicles in Delhi’s Green Park area. The air pollution reading meters showed that the PM 2.5 level hovered around 120 while PM 10 was around 140 in the area – much higher…

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, which has one of the 38 continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in Delhi. The PM 2.5 level was 21 and PM 10 hovered around 24. At 143, the AQI was in the…

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits a government school in South Delhi’s RK Puram. On Friday, PM 2.5 and PM10 levels hovered around 44 outside the school.

Newslaundry goes to Parliament House for this episode of Aaj Ka AQI. On Monday, the air detector pegged PM2.5 levels at over 130 while PM10 hovered around 150 at the spot.