This city in Bihar, had the worst AQI in the last 24 hours.

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• As shown by the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) notice, which records the air quality in the past 24 hours.
• In the interim, Kolkata that likewise saw ‘poor’ class air quality recorded an AQI of 229 in the beyond 24 hours. 

Awful air quality days are not generally restricted toward the north Indian states and Union domains as the poisonous breeze have now immersed different corners of the nation, as well. 

As shown by the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) notice, which records the air quality in the past 24 hours, upwards of 11 urban communities were recorded under ‘exceptionally poor’ classification. 

Of these, with the exception of one from West Bengal, the excess 10 urban communities were from Bihar. 

The CPCB release may not come as an amazement since a new report by Switzerland-based environment bunch, IQAir, named Kolkata and Mumbai, other than Delhi, among the world’s best 10 most-contaminated urban communities. 

In the beyond 24 hours, Delhi recorded an air quality file (AQI) of 290 in the ‘poor’ class. This comes after the Aam Aadmi Party-drove government in the public capital on Monday lifted the transitory prohibition on development and destruction exercises inferable from the improvement in the AQI. 

In the interim, Kolkata that likewise saw ‘poor’ class air quality recorded an AQI of 229 in the beyond 24 hours. Mumbai, then again, saw relatively much-preferred air quality over its metropolitan partners with an AQI of 76 in the ‘acceptable’ classification. 

The southern states, then again, kept on recording great air days. Information from the CPCB release uncovered that a sum of 27 urban communities or towns recorded ‘great’ class air quality in the beyond 24 hours, of which somewhere around 20 had a place with the southern states. 

Top 5 urban areas and towns that recorded best AQIs in the beyond 24 hours: 

1. Hassan in Karnataka at 19 

2. Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh at 25 

3. Chikkaballapur and Medikeri in Karnataka at 29 

4. Yadgir in Karnataka at 31 

5. Puducherry at 32 

Top 5 urban areas and towns that recorded the most exceedingly awful AQIs in the past 24 hours: 

1. Katihar in Bihar at 386 

2. Purnia in Bihar at 384 

3. Siwan in Bihar at 381 

4. Darbhanga in Bihar at 369 

5. Kishanganj in Bihar at 358