Inspite of all the preparation by the Delhi Government, Delhi is witnessing poor air quality.

There is unlikely any significant imporvement over the next few days, said the monitoring agencies.

As per the Centre's Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi, the national capital's air quality will likely shift between poor and very poor categories over the next four to five days.

Although, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Environment Monitoring and Research head Vijay Kumar Soni said that the AQI of Delhi was in the poor category, stating that it did not deteriorate much this year around Dussehra. “It was in the poor category yesterday, it has increased a little today but it still is in the poor category. This time GRAP [Graded Response Action Plan] stage 2 has been implemented in advance so we can see the positive results now. There was no hotspot that went into 'very poor' and 'severe' category, as reported by HindustanTimes.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday that the national capital will relaunch the ‘Red Light on Gaadi Off’ from October 26 to curb the air pollution arising from vehicles in the city. During a press conference, Rai conveyed that recent data analysis indicated a decline in PM10 pollution while observing an increase in PM2.5 concentration, which was attributed to biomass burning and vehicular emissions.