New Delhi, 3 October (IANS) A day after burning effigies of Ravana on Dussehra, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on Friday that the city recorded a significant improvement in air quality with the air quality index (AQI), which fell to 88 (satisfactory category).
He said that the city’s two major pollution hotspots – Narela (66) and Mundka (76) – registered ‘satisfactory’ AQI levels, continuously and the success of the target interventions, he said.
Exposing that October, there is a month that is usually associated with the level of increasing pollution, Sirsa credited Turnaround for tireless level action.
He said in a statement, “A satisfactory day in October is the most obvious proof that mechanized sweeping, mist, construction and dust control over sites, and inherited waste are working such as intervention such as bio-mining.
Sirsa reiterated that the weather is no longer the only driver to improve Delhi’s air quality. He said, “The clean air we are seeing today is the result of policy, enforcement and teamwork. Delhi is proving that with resolutions, systems and continuous action, cleaner air is obtained and durable,” he said.
Delhi has already recorded 190 clean air days between January 1 to October 3, 2025 – the most for this period in about a decade.
The demonstration is probably on track to cross all the previous years on 2025, except for the city on the 2020, when the city saw 227 in the days that were due to the lockdown of the epidemic.
He said, “Even the records are now within close reach, ready for a historic change in the Delhi battle for Cleaner Air,” he said.
Highlighting the government model, the minister said: “Under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and effective guidance of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Delhi is moving from short -term reforms to long -term solutions. October AQI reflects the strength of this active approach.”
“This change in cleanliness is not casual-it is the result of many interventions being executed in a coordinated manner. By expanding the green cover of Delhi through a large scale tree plantation drive, strict dust control over C&D sites, and compulsory-camogue guns on large commercial projects, and are being included with each measure.
“We have deployed a mistress system in hotspots, ensuring centralized monitoring for real-time action, and new road construction and repair as well as timely garbage collection. Each of these feeds in a large cycle of intervention improvement, causing visible and average influence on Delhi’s air quality,” Sirsa said.
While presenting a report, the minister said that civil action has been included in the last 24 hours: 10,869 metric tonnes of garbage removal, 6,265 km of roads sweeping, 2,171 Mount C&D waste lifting and 8,894 metric heritage waste bio -lections – bio -mining – 3,839 MT: 3,839 MT; Okhla: 2,547 Mount and Gazipur: 2,508 MT.
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