Overview
- Official readings showed Delhi back in the ‘poor’ range on Thursday morning with an overall AQI near 264–271 and several hotspots, including Bawana and Narela, slipping into ‘very poor’.
- Independent tracker AQI.in reported pre‑dawn spikes near 600 and multiple ‘severe’ sites, highlighting sharp discrepancies between monitoring platforms.
- Conditions had briefly improved to an AQI of 202 on Wednesday before reversing, and the Air Quality Early Warning System expects ‘very poor’ air from November 6–8 as winds weaken.
- Authorities reported intensified measures under GRAP‑2, issuing over 20,000 challans to polluting vehicles and deploying anti‑smog guns, water sprinklers, mechanical sweepers and large enforcement teams.
- A CREA snapshot ranked Delhi sixth most polluted in October and estimated stubble burning contributed under 6% of PM2.5, reinforcing calls for year‑round sectoral emission cuts.