00:00So now we know that the pollution was higher, but how high was it?
00:04That is still not clear because there's a certain discrepancy that has come out in the data readings.
00:09And as our team was tracking through the night and early this morning,
00:12a high-tech digital display, look at that, outside the Indian Med Department,
00:17showed Delhi's AQI at 143.
00:21Now that, as you can see on your screen, but what about other control,
00:25the Pollution Control Board, for example, also?
00:28So that is when we look at that data, that crossed about 400, between 300, 45 to 400.
00:34That was the number that had come on the screens.
00:38How can the margin be so much?
00:41And that is what has now raised a bigger question.
00:44Moderate category, or is it severe category, or is it hazardous as well?
00:48The difference of nearly 200 points does not make sense.
00:52The readings have left Delhi residents questioning the wide gap, the concerns over it as well,
00:56and what does one really believe then?
01:01The AQI is something that has been talked about today since yesterday was Diwali,
01:05and it was expected that the AQI could increase by multiple folds.
01:09And since morning, there has been a lot of confusion as to what is the exact data
01:13of the air quality index out here in the national capital.
01:16On one hand, where some opposition leaders have gone ahead and claimed on social media
01:19that the AQI had crossed 3,000.
01:21On the other hand, the government data shows something absolutely else.
01:25This morning at approximately 5 a.m., the AQI of the national capital was around 3.66.
01:31But over here, I am standing outside the Mausambhavan, or the Indian Meteorological Department,
01:37and this board that is stationed over here is actually managed by the Delhi Pollution Control Board.
01:41But over here, you can see that the AQI says 143, which is moderate.
01:45And this is government data that has come to the fore.
01:47And it is absolutely shocking to note at this point in time that the AQI is being shown as 143
01:53in moderate category.
01:55On the other hand, if I could show you the official government data, this is of DPCC,
02:00Delhi Pollution Control Board, All India AQI Dashboard.
02:03We have selected the station that is IMD Lodi Road, where the meteorological department is situated.
02:10And here, the AQI shows 342, which is multiple times than what the AQI is being shown over here.
02:18The larger question that still remains as to what is the actual AQI, on whose data should the people believe,
02:25because the AQI has definitely deteriorated.
02:27There are no two ways about it.
02:29The AQI over here states 143, which means that it is in the moderate category and thinning fog in patches,
02:37which means there are patches of fog that has engulfed the national capital.
02:42So this is the data that is being shown over here.
02:45But the data that is being shared from the side of the Central Pollution Control Board,
02:50it clearly states that the AQI out here at Lodi Road is above 300, is around 342,
02:57which means that it is in the very poor category.
03:00So whose data is real, why the data that is outside one of the most important and prominent places
03:07when it comes to fighting pollution is actually somewhere or the other, seems to be fussed,
03:11because 143 AQI a day after Diwali almost seems to be a dream that could come true eventually
03:18or might not come true ever.
03:20With video journalist Logintar Pandey, this is Anshul Singh for India today.
