National Air Quality Index

‘The National Air Quality Index’ (AQI) was launched in October 2014 by Ministry of Enivornment, Forests and Climate Change. AQI is being regarded as ‘One Number- One Colour-One Description’ for the common man to judge the air quality within his vicinity.

  • Traditionally, air quality status has been reported through voluminous data. Thus, it was important that information on air quality is put up in public domain in simple linguistic terms that is easily understood by a common person. Air Quality Index (AQI) is one such tool for effective dissemination of air quality information to people.
  • There are six AQI categories, namely Good, ....
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