Air Quality Index (AQI) of various cities around the world

Recently I read an article where I got to know about the AQI of various cities around the world. The interesting thing that I saw was the gap between the AQI of Indian capital city Delhi and the other cities was very very large.

The worst part is that this happens every year and if it continues to happen then it will be called nothing less than a seasonal disaster. The situation is like, that instead of showing decrement trend it is spreading to other cities as well.

Now, what I was saying that AQI of various big cities was published in one of the online website which I don't remember exactly. The AQI of Delhi was somewhat around 470-480 and the AQI of city next to it was around 250. AQI of Ottawa was 9. Can you imagine the difference between Ottawa and Delhi.

I am not comparing these two cities because both have huge differences in their geographical area and its demography but we can compare it with the cities like Islamabad and Colombo that have much better AQI than our capital city Delhi.

In recent news I got to know that Delhi's air pollution level borders on 'severe plus' whose AQI is around 500. People are forced to breathe this polluted air. All schools and colleges are being shut in the event of severe pollution level.

This is not the time to think upon this situation because that time is already passed, this is the time to act. Impose more strict punishment for any kind of violation. People would say that only Diwali crackers are not responsible for this, I agree with them but in today's situation any extra activities like this will add fuel to the fire.

People suffering from lungs diseases are more prone to this kind of air pollution. Leave these people, even the healthier people are not able to breathe properly.

This is the problem of human temperament and not to obey rules and regulations. Leave the bigger and more dense cities, smaller cities are also facing the same problem of air pollution.

Now cities like Lucknow and Patna are among the other top polluted cities in India. This shows that not only Delhi and Mumbai, other cities are also coming in the similar situation due to bad air quality.

We are busy only in some useless debates and topics that have no point of discussion but today's media only focus on these things and very few are concern about the situation.


I want to say only one thing please STOP NOW!!!