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A report on the level of ozone depletion in the national capital region this year by the Centre for Science and Environment hasrevealed alarming numbers.

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New Delhi: Ozone pollution was higher betweenApril and June of this year as compared to the sameperiod last year, says a new analysis by the Centre forScience and Environment (CSE). The Delhi-basednon-profit think tank has revealed that the averageozone levels observed in Delhi exceeded theprescribed standards on 13 per cent of the daysbetween April 1 and June 15 of this year as comparedto 7 per cent of the same time frame in 2018.

The analysis further shows that the number of dayscrossing the limit was 53 per cent to 92 per centwhich has been dubbed as 'extremely high'. Amongthe settlements in the national capital region (NCR),Faridabad experienced the highest share of days

when the average ozone levels exceeded the prescribed standard at 80 per cent. Ghaziabad was a close second with 67 percent of the days followed by Gurgaon at 21 per cent.

In the capital city itself, the number of days fell between 53 per cent to 93 per cent in several industrial and residentialareas. Among areas which experienced the highest number of days when ozone pollution was higher than the prescribedstandards were Najafgarh at 93 per cent, Sri Aurobindo Park at 87 per cent, Narela at 81 per cent, Siri Fort and Rohini at 80per cent each, Nehru Nagar and Vivek Vihar at 77 per cent each, Bawana at 75 per cent, Jahangirpuri at 73 per cent, JLNStadium at 72 per cent Dwarka sector 8 at 69 per cent, and RK Puram at 55 per cent.

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In the report titled 'At The Crossroads', the think tank specifies that ozone is a reactive gas and can have an immediateadverse e�ect on those su�ering from asthma and respiratory conditions. Data released earlier by the System of AirQuality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) study of 2018 showed that vehicular emission is responsible for62.5 per cent of NOx load from all sources.

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