'Grateful to be living in Goa: Delhi air 'hard to digest' for South African cricket legend Jonty Rhodes

NEW DELHI: South African cricket fable Jonty Rhodes has drawn attraction to the worsening aerial prime successful Delhi, describing the city’s contamination arsenic “hard to digest” portion contrasting it with the cleanable aerial of his location successful coastal Goa.“Passing done Delhi en way to Ranchi this evening, and arsenic always, it's hard to digest the debased levels of aerial prime here,” Rhodes wrote connected X, adding, “Am grateful to beryllium surviving successful a tiny sportfishing colony successful South Goa.” He tagged the station with #AQI and #whats2Bdone.Delhi woke up to a heavy furniture of smog connected Monday, with temperatures dipping to 11.6°C and the city’s aerial prime remaining successful the “very poor” category.

Data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) astatine 6:05am showed an wide Air Quality Index (AQI) of 346. Pollution levels were dangerously precocious crossed astir monitoring stations. Bawana recorded the worst AQI astatine 412, followed by Wazirpur (397), Jahangirpuri (394), and Nehru Nagar (386), according to the CPCB’s Sameer app. The superior has been experiencing deteriorating aerial prime for 4 consecutive days, edging person to the “severe” category. Sunday’s mean AQI was 370, the second-highest of the play aft October 30, erstwhile it reached 373.

While mornings remained heavy polluted, upwind enactment aboriginal successful the time brought flimsy relief. On Sunday, the AQI measured 391 astatine 8am and 389 astatine 11am, improving marginally by 4pm, erstwhile the authoritative 24-hour mean is recorded.Delhi situation curate Manjinder Singh Sirsa pointed to a slew of measurement being taken by the metropolis govt, including installing sprinklers, fixing contamination norms for industries etc, portion attacking the erstwhile AAP govt, stating that portion they fto Delhi’s contamination worsen for 10 years and expect it to beryllium cleaned successful 7 months.“The inaction of contamination of 10 years cannot beryllium fixed successful 7 months. AAP commented connected the determination of the Bawana monitoring station, which was installed by them. They spent wealth connected advertisements and not connected fixing pollution. We are moving to marque the concern better,” said Sirsa.