ASSIGNMENT – 1

MPH 105 – ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

AIR QUALITY INDEX 2021 - DELHI

SUBMITTED TO – DR. BIDHI SINGH

SUBMITTED BY – NAVPREET KAUR
ROLL NO. 14
MPH 1
 MONTHLY AVERAGE DATA YEAR - 2021
DELHI - DTU, CPCB
SR. PM2.5 SO2 OZONE NO2 NH3 CO.
MONTH PM10 μg/m3 μg/m3 AQI
NO. μg/m3 μg/m3 μg/m3 μg/m3 μg/m3
1 JANUARY 82 164 12 46 168 35 26 168
2 FEBRUARY 256 355 7 18 123 26 101 355
3 MARCH 284 304 7 11 60 65 79 304
4 APRIL 181 161 36 25 85 61 69 181
5 MAY 148 132 10 25 45 16 48 148
6 JUNE 115 90 6 34 54 19 36 115
7 JULY 148 130 9 28 55 20 33 148
8 AUGUST 86 94 16 26 33 14 36 94
9 SEPTEMBER 68 85 12 54 47 18 95 95
10 OCTOBER 88 97 10 9 33 9 35 100
11 NOVEMBER 202 291 8 21 90 19 104 291
 AQI
REPRESENTATION IN BAR GRAPH

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350

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JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

AQI
 AQI
REPRESENTATION IN PIE CHART
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

8%
15%

5% 18%

5%

5%

7%
15%

6%
7% 9%
 MONTHLY AVERAGE AIR QUALITY DATA - DELHI 2021
LINE GRAPH
400

355
350

300 304
291

250

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200

181
168
150 148 148

115
100 100
94 95

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0
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER
 MONTHLY AVERAGE AIR COMPOSITION DELHI 2021
REPRESENTATION IN STACKED COLUMN BAR GRAPH
100%
26
79 33
101 69 48 36 36 35
35 104
90% 20
26 16 19 95
65 14 9
61 19
80% 55
123 60 45 33
33 90
54
11
7
168 85 18
18 25 28 9
70% 7 21
26 10 8
10 9
34 47
25
16
60%
36 6

46 304
50% 132 130 54
355 97
12 291
90
94
161 12
40%

30% 164
85

20%
284 148 148
115 88
256 181 86 202
10% 68
82

0%
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

PM10 μg/m3 PM2.5 μg/m3 SO2 μg/m3 OZONE μg/m3 NO2 μg/m3 NH3 μg/m3 CO. μg/m3
 MONTHLY AVERAGE AIR COMPOSITION DATA - DELHI 2021
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JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

PM10 μg/m3 PM2.5 μg/m3 SO2 μg/m3 OZONE μg/m3 NO2 μg/m3 NH3 μg/m3 CO. μg/m3
 INTERPRETATION

• The data presented has been collected from Central pollution control board under Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change. It represents the average Air Quality Index as well as the constituents of air in month-
on-month basis.

• Through the data, it can be interpreted that the months of February, march and November face the worst quality
of air while the months of August, September and October witness satisfactory quality with August having the
best and February having the worst quality of air with AQIs of 94 and 355 respectively.

• As per the Particulate matter is concerned, for both PM10 and PM2.5 , the trend in their increase coincides with
the months having worst air quality.

• The amount of So2 and CO are well maintained within the limits permissible under National Ambient Air Quality
Standards throughout the year, i.e. <50μg/m3 and 2000μg/m3
However, the amount of NO2 can be seen barely touching the mark of required standards of 40μg/m3
 REASONS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS TREND
• First of all, Delhi is landlocked territory with major farming states surrounding it. While harvesting season
contributes to increase in particulate matter, the act of stubble burning has proven to increase 40% of Delhi’s
pollution in 2020 according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR)

• Vehicular emissions are other major causative agents of poor CO and NOx indices. Around 20% of PM 2.5 in
winters comes from it.

• Burning of crackers with arrival of festival season also contributes to end-yearly increase in pollution.

• The rise in pollution during the end of the year is also contributed by withdrawal of monsoon along with
change in the direction of winds to north westerly, accumulating dust in North India.

• Winter marks arrival of calm atmospheric conditions too. Hence reducing dispersion of pollutants in upper
air helping them to suspend and stabilize. Lowering of inversion layer keep pollutants near to ground.
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