Noida: Noida continued to grapple with hazardous air quality on Saturday, with the city’s average AQI standing at 318 (very poor), marginally higher than Friday’s 313.Sector 62, which had recorded a severe-plus AQI of 468 on Friday, continued to report hazardous pollution levels on Saturday, with the monitoring station recording an AQI of 457.Sector 110 recorded the second-highest AQI at 334, followed by Sector 150 at 305, with both stations falling in the ‘very poor’ category. Sector 125 recorded the lowest AQI at 266 (poor). PM2.5 (fine particles) was the main pollutant at all seven stations over the past 24 hours.Ghaziabad’s AQI improved from 368 on Friday to 333 and was in the list of the 10 most polluted cities in the country. On Friday, it was the third most polluted city in the country.Except for Govindpuram, which registered an AQI in the ‘moderate’ category at 154, and Sanjay Nagar, which logged 296 (‘poor’), the rest of the seven stations recorded ‘very poor’ AQI. Loni New Tehsil recorded an AQI of 396 and Dasna Dehat at 380, nearing the ‘severe’ threshold.At Loni station, the AQI was 374, while at Ved Vihar station in Loni, it was 325. At Vasundhara station, the AQI was recorded at 362, at Indirapuram it was 330 and Wave City, 355.In Greater Noida, on the other hand, the AQI dropped from 348 a day before to 324 on Saturday. Its Shiv Nadar University station recorded an AQI of 291, which is under the ‘poor’ category.Gaur Yamina City logged an AQI of 330, Ghodi Bachheda 336 and Knowledge Park 5 and 3, 350 and 307, respectively.
