Brace yourself! Odd-Even to be extended after Monday? Here is what Delhi government hinted at

Delhi government on Friday said that it will make a decision on the extension of the Odd-Even scheme on Monday. "We don`t want to impose the Odd-Even unnecessarily. We will see the air quality. If it improves, we will not impose the scheme. Otherwise, we will take the decision on extending the Odd-Even scheme on Monday morning," Delhi government said.

Odd-Even was imposed in Delhi from November 4 and last day is Friday.

Delhi Air Pollution

Meanwhile, Delhi has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the most polluted major city in the world with an air quality index (AQI) of 527 on Friday, as per data by Air Visual on the World AQI rankings.

The Air Visual data is updated frequently, so the caveat is that rankings and AQI counts change accordingly during the day itself.

Delhi air quality broke all records on November 5, when it was in the hazardous range for nine consecutive days, making this the longest spell of hazardous air quality since public records began, according to Air Visual.

Six of the top 10 cities fall in the Indian sub-continent, Delhi, Lahore, Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Kathmandu. So within Asia, air pollution is concentrated in South Asia.

Three Indian cities are in the list, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. So air pollution is not necessarily a problem specific to northern India although Delhi`s pollution is double that of Kolkata.

India`s financial capital, Mumbai is in the ninth place with an AQI of 153 and the dubious Top 10 concludes with Kathmandu in Nepal at 152.