Today's 24-hour average air quality index in Delhi was 248. As a result, the panel resolved to implement GRAP Stage II...
Digital Desk: In the face of a projected rise in pollution levels, the Centre's air quality panel today (October 21) urged authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) to raise parking costs to discourage private mobility and improve CNG or electric bus and metro services.
The move is part of 'Stage II' of the central government's pollution control plan known as the 'Graded Response Move Plan' (GRAP), which is executed in the Delhi-NCR to tackle winter air pollution.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) predicted that Delhi's overall air quality is likely to decline and enter the "very poor" category on October 23 (Monday) and 24 (Tuesday), due to unfavourable meteorological and climatic conditions, at a meeting to review the air quality situation in the Delhi-NCR.
On Saturday, the 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was 248. As a result, the panel resolved to implement GRAP Stage II measures throughout the NCR, in addition to the procedures already implemented under Stage I.
The order stated, "All actions as envisaged under Stage-II be implemented in right earnest by all the agencies concerned in NCR with immediate effect, in addition to all Stage-I actions of GRAP already in force."
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