Air pollution ranges noticed alarming spike on Diwali evening: Report
LUCKNOW: The town become a fuel chamber on Diwali evening regardless of all consciousness campaigns and inexperienced crackers making means for air pollution emitting ones.
An alarming spike in air air pollution ranges of over 100% as in comparison with regular days was witnessed as a result of bursting of crackers.
The town choked with an increase in PM 2.5 and PM 10 ranges by 177.68% and 126% respectively on Diwali evening as in comparison with pre-Diwali evening, as per the ambient air high quality throughout pre-Diwali, Diwali and post-Diwali pageant report launched by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Analysis (IITR) director Bhaskar Narayan on Tuesday.
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Final 12 months, the rise in air air pollution ranges on Diwali evening was lower than this Diwali as PM 10 and PM 2.5 spiked by 108.8% and 162.3% respectively.
IITR carried out air air pollution monitoring in 4 localities of town, two residential: Aliganj and Vikasnagar and two industrial: Aminabad and Chowk.
Aminabad and Chowk’s air high quality was ‘very extreme’ with each PM 10 and PM 2.5 ranges recording round 6-7 occasions increased than the secure limits. The report highlighted that on Diwali evening (Sunday) the superfine hazardous micropollutant PM 2.5 spiked to 336 (177.6%) micrograms per cubic metre of air from 121 micrograms monitored on the evening earlier than Diwali.
As per the Nationwide Ambient Air High quality Monitoring Requirements (NAAQS), the permissible restrict for PM 2.5 is 60 micrograms.
