Diwali celebrations leave Delhiites gasping for breath, data shows AQI shot up every year
Zee News
The bursting of firecrackers on the occasion of Diwali impacted the air quality severely and led to low visibility in the national capital on Friday morning.
New Delhi: As a thick blanket of smog shrouded the skies of Delhi on Friday (November 5, 2021), several people in the national capital complained of itchy throats and watery eyes. The Delhiites woke up to a worrying AQI of 617 today.
Even after several appeals from the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government and a Supreme Court order, the residents of the national capital violated the ban on firecrackers forcing the AQI to plummet into the ‘hazardous’ category.
According to a News18 report, a comparison of the last few years’ data to the current year revealed that the Delhiites haven’t learned anything from their previous mistakes. The data revealed that nothing much has changed about the toxic city skies around this time of the year.
