Delhi’s air quality inched close to the ‘severe’ category on Wednesday, with the city’s average AQI climbing to 392. The age-old argument of a certain intellectual class in the country is that Delhi gets polluted due to Diwali. The firecrackers burst during Diwali are the reason behind Delhi's AQI rising. Today, the air quality is in the worst category.

The PM 10 level in Delhi's air was 402, and the PM 2.5 level was 177, which falls in the very poor category. The AQI in Bawana reached 419, while Jahangirpuri recorded 412 and Wazirpur recorded 413. This is a very dangerous situation. This year, even the day after Diwali, Delhi's air quality remained in the 'poor' category. Self-proclaimed pollution experts then conducted research and concluded that Diwali fireworks had poisoned the air. T

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