Delhi Fire Service official said on Thursday that a fire tender was stationed at the landfill site as the fire is still smouldering. Fire has been raging at the massive dump site since October 20.
However, by Tuesday evening, the flames were somewhat brought under control and parts of the landfill smouldered, DFS officials had said. On Sunday, the AQI had oscillated between 'poor' and 'very poor' categories.On Saturday, a haze had engulfed the national capital and the worst air quality of this season was recorded at 324.
Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had flayed the Centre and the neighbouring state governments for their inaction to stop stubble burning and said that "Delhi will become a gas chamber".
The stubble burning increased in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana, with environment activists asserting that farmers have intensified burning the crop residue protesting the lack of official support.
(input from agencies)