LUCKNOW Lucknow remained shrouded in a thick layer of smog on Tuesday morning with all 5 stay stations set as much as measure the air high quality index (AQI) recording a ‘poor’ studying. Lalbagh and Aliganj had been essentially the most polluted areas within the metropolis with common AQIs of 352 (very poor) and 314 (very poor), respectively.
A person covers his face with a masks amid air air pollution within the state capital on Tuesday. (Deepak Gupta/HT Photograph)
The particulate matter (PM2.5) worth at some stations went into ‘severe’ class with related numbers being recorded at Delhi’s stay stations. At Lalbagh, the PM 2.5 worth reached 386 throughout evening time whereas PM 10 was 416 and remained within the ‘red zone’ from evening to morning.
The info was fetched from six stay monitoring stations at Talkatora, Lalbagh, Kendriya Vidyalay, Gomti Nagar, Kukrail, and BR Ambedkar College arrange collectively by Central and State Air pollution Management Boards to observe air pollution.
For the unversed, the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB) classifies AQI between 0-50 as “good”, between 51 and 100 as “satisfactory”, between 101 and 200 as “moderate”, between 201 and 300 as “poor”, between 301 and 400 as “very poor”, and over 400 as “severe”.
The opposite stations in Lucknow weren’t behind, as Gomti Nagar recorded a ‘poor’ AQI of 262 and PM 2.5 worth reached a most of 386. The Talkatora industrial space was additionally in ‘poor’ class with AQI 255 and PM2.5 worth reaching most 324 throughout evening hours.
Apparently, Kukrail, which is a inexperienced zone and comes beneath forest space, recorded an AQI of 217 with PM2.5 worth reaching 302 within the morning. Likewise, BBAU station, which too was in average class until Monday, turned ‘poor’ with AQI reaching 227 and PM2.5 worth reaching most of 352 at evening.
3 U.P. cities in ‘severe’ class
Three U.P. cities had been in ‘severe’ class of air air pollution, very near the AQI (460) of Delhi, as per the each day bulletin launched by the CPCB. Cities that recorded extreme air pollution had been Ghaziabad 434, Bulandshahr 416 and Hapur 419.
POLLUTION CHART (AQI)
SEVERE
Ghaziabad 434
Bulandshahr 416
Hapur 419
VERY POOR
Baghpat 375
Higher Noida 372
Noida 370
Meerut 350
POOR
Muzaffarnagar 284
Lucknow 269
Firozabad 268
Kanpur 237
Agra 228