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The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has formed 16 squads in 32 of the electoral wards with each squad comprising five officials.
As per the Central Pollution Control Board, AQI that is “severe” (401 to 500) can affect “healthy people and seriously impact those with existing diseases”.
The report also stated that roughly 60 per cent of cities in India included in this report experienced annual PM2.5 levels of at least seven times higher than the WHO guideline