According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board, Noida’s air quality remained in the “severe” category on Sunday morning, with readings hitting the maximum of 499 at the city’s Sector 116 station as of 8 am, a day after the worst AQI in the nation was recorded on Saturday at 455. As of 8 a.m. on Sunday, the AQI was 456 at Noida’s Sector 125 station, 432 at Sector 62, and 488 at Sector 1.
At 8 a.m., the AQI at Knowledge Park 3 and Knowledge Park 5 stations was 405 and 478, respectively, indicating that similar air pollution conditions continued in neighboring Greater Noida. An AQI of 0–50 is deemed “good,” 51–100 is deemed “satisfactory,” 101–200 is deemed “moderate,” 201–300 is deemed “poor,” 301–400 is deemed “very poor,” and 401–500 is deemed “severe,” according to the CPCB.
Beyond that, it doesn’t offer readings. As the air quality declined, both parts of the Gautam Buddha Nagar district awoke to a heavy coating of haze. Smog made it difficult to see in many parts of the district on Saturday morning, which resulted in a number of car crashes. near least 15 vehicles piled up near the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Greater Noida at around 8.30 am. Thankfully, no fatalities were recorded from the collision, and the traffic was cleared in two hours.
Ghaziabad’s AQI values were well above 400 on Sunday morning, indicating that the city’s air quality was still rather terrible. At 8 a.m., the AQI was 476 at the Indirapuram station in Ghaziabad, 419 at the Sanjay Nagar station, and 482 at the Vasundhara station. Authorities invoked stage 4 of pollution control measures, commonly known as the Graded Response Action Plan, on Saturday due to the deteriorating air quality in Delhi and the surrounding areas.
