Resources

Check today’s air (official, Delhi NCR)

Use the station nearest you and note the timestamp.

• CPCB National AQI dashboard
  Official real-time AQI by station. If it does not load, try the mirror at app.cpcbccr.com/AQI_India.
• SAMEER app (Android)
  CPCB’s official AQI app. Also on the App Store as “Sameer India’s AQI”.
• Delhi government AQI portal
  Live AQI and health advice by category from the Department of Environment, GNCTD.
• Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi (IITM)
  Multi-day AQI forecasts used in GRAP decisions.
• DPCC real-time ambient air monitoring
  Delhi Pollution Control Committee stations.
• CPCB daily AQI bulletin
  The official 4 pm daily average AQI for each city. GRAP decisions use it.
• SAFAR-India (IITM)
  Forecasts. Has had outages; use IITM EWS if it is down.

Rules and restrictions

• Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM)
  GRAP schedule and orders invoking or revoking stages.
• GRAP schedule revision, September 2026 (PIB)
  Summary of the current GRAP measures.

Health guidance (India)

• Health Advisory on Air Pollution, 2025 (MoHFW)
  The health ministry’s latest public advisory.
• Air pollution and health: ASHA handbook (NCDC)
  Plain-language advice by AQI category for vulnerable groups.
• Chest clinic guidance note, Nov 2025 (NCDC)
  Guidance for clinicians and patients with air-pollution-related illness.
• Tele-MANAS mental health helpline
  Call 14416 or 1800-891-4416. Long winters indoors are hard on wellbeing too.

Health guidance (international)

• WHO global air quality guidelines (2021)
  The guideline values for PM2.5 and other pollutants.
• WHO Europe: Personal-level actions to reduce exposure (2024)
  Evidence review on masks, purifiers and behaviour.
• US EPA: Patient exposure and the AQI
  Who is sensitive and how to reduce dose.
• AAP: Wildfire smoke information for parents
  Children, masks and clean indoor air.

Home protection (technical)

• US EPA: Guide to Air Cleaners in the Home
  CADR, HEPA and choosing a purifier.
• US EPA: How to create a cleaner air room
  Step-by-step clean room guidance.
• US EPA: DIY air cleaners
  Box-fan filter research and safety notes.
• US EPA: Low-cost air sensors and indoor air
  Using consumer monitors well.
• US EPA: Ozone generators sold as air cleaners
  Why to avoid them.

Masks

• NIOSH Certified Equipment List
  Look up an N95’s TC approval number.
• NIOSH: Counterfeit respirators
  Signs of fake N95s.
• BIS Care app
  Verify an ISI licence number (CM/L) on Indian-certified masks.

Emergency

• 112: Emergency Response Support System
  One number for police, fire and ambulance across NCR.
• CATS ambulance, Delhi: 102
  Free 24×7 ambulance service of the Delhi government.