GURUGRAM: The Central Pollution Control Board's bulletin for Sunday, November 8, 2026, recorded Gurugram's air quality index at 288 at 4 pm IST, moving the city into the poor category after Saturday's 345. The fresh figure is the new development since the November 7 bulletin, as reported earlier on dalimss.news. It represents an average of the preceding 24 hours, rather than a reading taken after Diwali night's celebrations.
For residents in Sector 51 and other city neighbourhoods, the published Gurugram number is a city summary, not a reading outside each home. Manesar had a separate bulletin figure of 279, also poor, while Panchgaon remained very poor at 333. All three entries listed PM2.5 as the prominent pollutant.
What changed in the district readings
The November 8 official bulletin shows four of Gurugram's four monitoring stations participating in the city figure. Manesar and Panchgaon each have one participating station out of one listed. These participation counts describe the reporting coverage used in the bulletin and help readers distinguish a city with several stations from a location represented by one.
| Location | November 7 AQI | November 8 AQI | November 8 category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gurugram | 345 | 288 | Poor |
| Manesar | 279 | 279 | Poor |
| Panchgaon | 377 | 333 | Very poor |
Gurugram's improvement amounts to 57 index points between the two daily bulletins. Panchgaon improved by 44 points, but the change did not take it below the very poor threshold. Manesar's published value was unchanged at 279. The district picture therefore combines an improvement in Gurugram's category, an improvement within Panchgaon's existing category and no numerical change in Manesar.
The difference between Gurugram and Panchgaon was 45 points on Sunday. That gap is useful context for someone travelling between those areas: the single Gurugram headline number does not describe every separate location in the district. The bulletin labels these as distinct entries, and their figures should remain separate when residents compare them.
The same Sunday bulletin placed Delhi at 376 and Ghaziabad at 344, both very poor. Faridabad was poor at 291, while Greater Noida was poor at 299 and Noida very poor at 318. These regional entries provide context for journeys beyond Gurugram, but each remains a separate city figure with its own monitoring coverage.
How the latest figure fits the three day picture
On Friday, November 6, the board reported Gurugram at 368, Manesar at 332 and Panchgaon at 426. All three locations were lower in Sunday's bulletin. Gurugram's decline over those two days was 80 points, Manesar's was 53 and Panchgaon's was 93. These differences are calculated directly from the board's daily published values.
Friday's Panchgaon reading was severe, with PM10 identified as its prominent pollutant. Saturday's 377 moved that location into very poor, and Sunday's 333 kept it there, with PM2.5 prominent in both later bulletins. The change in the leading pollutant is part of the official entries; the AQI number alone does not show that distinction.
Gurugram had PM2.5 as its prominent pollutant throughout the three bulletins. Manesar also listed PM2.5 on each day. Naming the prominent pollutant identifies the pollutant leading the reported index, rather than stating that other pollutants were absent. The daily table does not provide a source attribution showing how much of the pollution came from any particular activity.
Poor air still carries an exposure warning
The board's category table places poor air between 201 and 300, and very poor between 301 and 400. Its possible health impact statement for poor air describes breathing discomfort for most people with prolonged exposure. For very poor air, it describes respiratory illness with prolonged exposure. A move into poor therefore records improvement while retaining an official exposure warning.
The severe category runs from 401 to 500. That was the category attached to Panchgaon on November 6, but none of the three local entries was severe in the November 8 bulletin. The category descriptions are general statements attached to index ranges. They are not individual medical assessments or counts of residents who became ill.
The timing is particularly relevant on a festival day. Sunday's bulletin ends at 4 pm IST and cannot establish what happened to air quality during that evening or overnight into Monday, November 9. It should not be presented as a Monday live reading or as evidence of the effect of the night's firecracker use. Such claims need separately dated observations covering that later period.
Residents following the administrative response can read the earlier Gurugram reports on the November 6 GRAP escalation and hybrid primary classes and the municipal road dust enforcement direction. Those reports concern official decisions. This update records the newer measured figures and does not announce a fresh relaxation of those decisions.
