Air Quality in National Capital Delhi deteriorates to very poor category
The Air Quality in National Capital Delhi has deteriorated to a very poor category. At 7 PM this evening Air Quality Index was recorded 310.
The Centre’s air quality panel yesterday had directed authorities in the National Capital Region to increase parking fees to discourage private transport and enhance the services of CNG or electric buses and metro trains.
The action comes as part of ‘Stage II’ of the central government’s pollution control plan known as the ‘Graded Response Action Plan’ GRAP, which is implemented in the Delhi-NCR to combat air pollution during the winter season.
At a meeting to review the air quality situation in the Delhi-NCR, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), said forecasts by the India Meteorological Department and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology suggest Delhi’s overall air quality is likely to dip and enter the ‘very poor’ category on October 23 and 24, owing to unfavourable meteorological and climatic conditions. The CAQM is a statutory body responsible for proactively implementing GRAP.
