Dhaka's Air Quality Hits Hazardous Levels

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The government on Tuesday asked people not to go outside without masks as air quality in Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh deteriorated to an unhealthy and hazardous level.
The environment, forest and climate change ministry in its first ever advisory also advised individuals with sensitive health conditions or elderly and children to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary.
Environment activists blamed the failure of the authorities concerned to rectify pollution sources for the deterioration of the air quality as Dhaka kept ranking first among the cities with the most polluted air, threatening public health.
The Air Quality Index turned so bad that it exceeded the mark of 250 sometimes, the environment ministry said in the advisory when Dhaka’s AQI recorded 241 at 9:00am.
The index placed Dhaka as one of the top polluted cities of the world for a long time.
Centre for Atmospheric Pollution Studies founding director and Stamford University Bangladesh environment science professor Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder said that average air pollution in the country jumped to AQI 171 in 2023 from 146 in 2017.
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