Delhi's air quality improved slightly early Wednesday (October 29) but remained in the "poor" category a day after the government carried out two cloud seeding trials in the city.

The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) in the NCR on Wednesday dropped to 273 from 294 a day earlier. As per SAFAR, the "current AQI" around 10 am was recorded at 273 (poor), the "forecast AQI" was projected at 309 (very poor).

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi recorded an AQI of 294 at 4 pm on Tuesday (October 28), a marginal drop from Monday's (October 27) reading of 301, which fell under the "very poor" category.

Despite the overall improvement, 11 out of Delhi's 38 monitoring stations continued to record AQI in "very poor" range with readings above 300, data from the CPCB's Sameer

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