The air quality of Ghaziabad and Meerut on Saturday was the third worst in the country, recording an AQI of 312. So far in October, this is the first time that Ghaziabad’s AQI has breached the 300-mark.
Ghaziabad’s air quality index, however, was based on the reading of only two pollution monitoring stations out of four. The readings for Indirapuram and Vasundhara were not available. Loni station at 7.10pm recorded an AQI of 355 which comes under the ‘very poor’ category while Sanjay Nagar recorded an AQI of 260.