Delhi locals defy firecracker restriction, brighten night sky with Diwali events

At 9 pm, Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) was taped at 327 consisting of at Alipur and Anand Vihar. The Delhi sky illuminated on Thursday night as individuals commemorated Diwali defying a restriction on firecrackers. Locations consisting of Lajpat Nagar, Kalkaji, Chhatarpur, Jaunapur, East of Kailash, Saket, Rohini, Dwarka, Punjabi Bagh, Vikas Puri, Dilshad Garden, Burari and numerous other areas of east and west Delhi saw firecrackers being burst. At 9 pm, Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) was taped at 327, with Alipur, Anand Vihar, Ashok Vihar, Aaya Nagar, Bawana, Burari, Mathura Road, IGI Airport, Dwarka, Jahangirpuri, Mundka, Narela, Patparganj, Rohini, Shadipur, Sonia Vihar, Wazirpur, Mandir Marg, Nehru Nagar, Najafgarh and other weather-monitoring stations seeing “extremely bad” air quality, according to the Sameer app that supplies per hour updates of the National AQI released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). With the 24-hour AQI tape-recorded at 328 at 4 pm, Delhi experienced its worst air quality on Diwali in the last 3 years. Following the practice of the last 4 years, the local government revealed an extensive restriction on the manufacture, storage, sale and usage of firecrackers previously this month. CHECKED OUT|THIS business got richer by Rs 29878 crore on Diwali day due to … Delhiites awakened to a sky shrouded in a thick layer of smog on Diwali morni
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