The
Pioneer, New Delhi, Jan 2017: Environment Minister Imran Hussain on
Tuesday reviewed the air quality of Delhi in a meeting with the senior
officials of the department and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. The
meeting underlined that the present weather scenario of Delhi is primarily due
to the presence of fog. The Minister discussed about the status of air quality
in the wake of existing weather conditions observed across North India with
rise in fog. The Environment Department said analysis of the data of different
pollutants shows that levels of PM10 and PM2.5 in Delhi is showing a decreasing
trend from the corresponding levels in the first week of November. Meanwhile on Tuesday, values of pollutants
were recorded four times high. According to (System of Air Quality and Weather
Forecasting And Research) SAFAR, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES), the average
concentration of PM 10 was recorded at 256 µgm-3 and PM 2.5 was recorded at 140
µgm-3 .