Air Quality Index for Indian Cities 2015-2023

This repository contains analysis of AQI Daily bulletins released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) since 2015. These daily bulletins can be currently obtained here: CPCB Daily AQI Bulletins (link as accessed May 8th, 2024)

https://github.com/urbanemissions-info/AQI_bulletins contains all the codes for parsing the data from the daily PDFs, data repository, and codes to make the calendar plots.

The data contains (available) day-wise city-average AQI value, AQI category, and conditional pollutant information. This data for all cities can be obtained in the AllIndiaBulletins_master.csv from data/Processed folder (on github) or as India_AQI_Bulletins_Master.csv  here.

Calendar plot of the AQI values is produced for each city, along with the average number of stations reporting AQI value in each year. City wise AQI bulletins CSV and calendar plots can be obtained on UrbanEmissions website: Link