From January to September 2026, how many days did Delhi record with a daily average AQI below 200, the highest such count in five years?
- A.146 days
- B.187 days
- C.194 days
- D.214 days
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Explanation
The correct answer is 194 days. A daily average below 200 falls in the moderate category, and the nine months of the current year gave 194 such days, the most in the five-year comparison. Option A, 146 days, is the figure for 2022, the weakest year of the set, and is a classic trap because it belongs to the same table. Option B, 187 days, is the figure for 2025, the year immediately before, and is the nearest wrong answer a candidate can pick by confusing the two most recent years; 2024 gave 188 days and 2023 gave 193 days. Option D, 214 days, does not appear in the comparison at all. Read together with the fall in bad-air days from 127 in 2022 to 79 this year, the direction of the trend is what the release is claiming, and the figure asked for is 194.
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Practice Questions
What monthly average Air Quality Index did Delhi record for September 2026, described as its lowest September figure in five years?
- A.92
- B.102
- C.112
- D.122
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The Environment Ministry placed the September average for Delhi at 102, and set it against 105 in 2025, 105 in 2024, 108 in 2023 and 104 in 2022, which makes it the lowest September reading across those five years.
Read the full explanation →Which body did the Environment Ministry name as working with stakeholders on the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region?
- A.Central Pollution Control Board
- B.Commission for Air Quality Management
- C.National Green Tribunal
- D.Indian Meteorological Department
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The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management, usually written as CAQM, which the ministry named as the body coordinating work with the agencies concerned.
Read the full explanation →In the road dust review, how much of the targeted road length in NCR had been redeveloped?
- A.3,221 km of 5,480 km
- B.5,480 km of 6,747 km
- C.2,298 km of 3,221 km
- D.2,345 km of 5,480 km
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Road-owning agencies were told to give priority to repairing potholes, damaged footpaths and central verges and to pave roads end to end as the CAQM framework requires, backed by surveys using artificial intelligence.
Read the full explanation →PAVAN, which brings air quality, emission, weather, satellite and compliance data onto one platform, belongs to which body?
- A.India Meteorological Department
- B.Commission for Air Quality Management
- C.National Green Tribunal
- D.Municipal Corporation of Delhi
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PAVAN stands for the Platform for Air Quality Vigilance and Analytics for NCR, and it is CAQM’s own platform, built so that air quality readings, emission data, meteorological information, satellite inputs and compliance records can be seen together instead of in separate silos.
Read the full explanation →How many polluting industries in non-conforming areas was the CPCB directed to seal immediately?
- A.91
- B.147
- C.191
- D.233
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These are the units standing in non-conforming areas which, in spite of being told repeatedly, had not even placed an order for air pollution control devices, and the Central Pollution Control Board was directed to seal them at once.
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