Delhi Weather: City to witness more rain, AQI satisfactory

Delhi Weather: The national capital on Sunday recorded a minimum temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsius, 7.8 notches below the season’s average.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorm with rain and the maximum temperature expected to settle around 29 degrees Celsius.

Relative humidity was recorded at 95 per cent at 8:30 am.

The air quality was recorded in the ‘satisfactory’ category at 9 am on Sunday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 68, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed.

According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 to 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 to 200 ‘moderate’, 201 to 300 ‘poor’, 301 to 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 to 500 ‘severe’.

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‘We are living in a dumpyard’: mounting waste sets off alarm bells in Sangam Vihar

For the over 10 lakh residents of Sangam Vihar—one of Delhi’s largest unauthorised colonies—the dream of a clean and dignified life has turned into a daily struggle against towering garbage piles and civic neglect. For more than a month, no municipal vans or sanitation workers have come to collect the waste, leaving the locality to choke under an ever-growing solid waste management crisis.

“Yeh zindagi nahi, ek azaab hai (This is not life, it’s a punishment),” said 58-year-old Meena Devi, a resident of G-block.

“Hamare gali ke kone pe teen mahine se kachra ka dher lagatar badhta jaa raha hai. Na koi gaadi aayi, na koi safai karamchari. Jab bhi kisi ko complaint karte hain, woh bolte hain ki yeh toh unauthorised area hai. Kya hum insaan nahi hain? (The garbage pile at the end of our lane has been growing for three months now. No vehicle has come; no cleaner has appeared. Every time we complain, officials say this is an unauthorised area. Are we not human?)” she added.

A crisis building, a system failing

Sangam Vihar falls under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), but residents say the locality has been all but abandoned. With no structured waste collection mechanism in place, household garbage lies strewn across streets. For nearly a month, no sanitation workers or garbage vans have visited the area, turning the colony into a hazard zone.