Overview

• Delhi’s average July AQI dropped to 67, placing it in the ‘Satisfactory’ category—the lowest July reading since 2015, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
• The capital has recorded 118 days of ‘Good’, ‘Satisfactory’, or ‘Moderate’ air quality in 2025, exceeding the 45 clean days logged by the same point in 2016 by more than 160%.
• Punjabi Bagh, Bawana and Vivek Vihar topped the charts for clean air, reporting AQI readings of 50, 51 and 55 respectively, all within the ‘Good’ range.
• In the past 24 hours, city crews cleared nearly 11,000 metric tonnes of garbage, removed over 2,300 tonnes of construction and demolition waste, swept more than 6,000 km of roads and carried out water sprinkling across 26 km.
• Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said the proactive model anticipates pollution spikes and cautioned that ongoing enforcement and hotspot monitoring are vital to sustaining these air quality gains.