The Fee for Air High quality Administration, CAQM, has imposed Stage 3 restrictions underneath the Graded Response Motion Plan, GRAP, throughout Delhi NCR amid a pointy rise in air air pollution ranges.
The choice was taken as Delhi’s air high quality deteriorated additional, with the Air High quality Index, AQI, crossing the 350 mark and coming into the ‘extreme’ class.
Underneath GRAP-III, restrictions embody a ban on non-essential building and demolition actions equivalent to earthwork, piling, open trenching, welding, portray, plastering and tile or flooring work. Operations of ready-mix concrete (RMC) crops, stone crushers, brick kilns and mining actions have additionally been prohibited.
Vehicular restrictions underneath GRAP-III additionally embody a ban on BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers, non-essential diesel-powered medium items autos, and inter-state diesel buses that don’t meet CNG, electrical or BS-VI requirements. Industries utilizing unapproved fuels ought to shut down operations underneath the curbs.
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