Pollution Menace: Ground report from Anand Vihar bus stand

Aiding the recovery is the fact that drastic reduction has been recorded in effective stubble fire counts (268) in Haryana and Punjab during the last 24 hours after touching a peak value of 3,178 on October 31. The AQI reading for Delhi, which was 435 on Saturday morning, reduced somewhat to 410 by the evening. More importantly, the PM 10 count has dropped from 'severe' to 'very poor' at 411.On Saturday, the PM 2.5 count at 9 a.m. has halved at 208, according to US Embassy data.