As the country gets set for the Commonwealth Games in October this year, scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune have given India an Air Quality Index (AQI) and a System for Air Pollution Forecasting and Research (SAFAR). Gufran Beig, Project Director of SAFAR and scientist at IITM, was assisted by Sachin Ghude and Aparna Deshpande as they scientifically evaluated existing air quality standards to define the AQI for India. It couldn