How many pollutants are measured under the recently launched National Air Quality Index?

How many pollutants are measured under the recently launched National Air Quality Index?
[A]Six
[B]Seven
[C]Eight
[D]Ten

Eight
Union government has launched the National Air Quality Index (AQI) for monitoring the quality of air in major urban centres across the country on a real-time basis and enhancing public awareness for taking mitigative action. The AQI has been at present launched for 10 cities — Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad, Ahmadabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The index considers eight pollutants — PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, NH3 and Pb). The likely health implications of the six categories would also be provided with a colour code. Reference


5 Comments

  1. Rahul

    April 14, 2015 at 8:50 am

    IT was update on 6th April there it was mentioned that the AQI will measure 6 pollutants. And now here the answer you have given is 8. Some confusion. Please clarify..

    • GKToday

      April 14, 2015 at 9:11 am

      Hello, Its eight pollutants viz. PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, NH3 and Pb)

  2. manu

    April 14, 2015 at 9:00 am

    It is six pollutants pm 2.5,pm 10,so2,no2,co,o3

  3. Rajesh

    April 14, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    FYI:
    There are six AQI categories ,name: Good,Satisfactory,Moderately Polluted,Poor,Very Poor nad Severe.

    Index cosiders eight Pollutants as mentioned above.

  4. satya

    April 24, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    There are six AQI categories, namely Good, Satisfactory, Moderately polluted, Poor, Very Poor, and Severe. The proposed AQI will consider eight pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, NH3, and Pb)

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