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As the aerial prime of Delhi deteriorated to the “severe” class connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) morning, the the Commission for Air Quality Management successful NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) has imposed signifier 3 of Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), a acceptable of exigency measures to power aerial pollution.
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“The CAQM GRAP Sub-Committee contiguous has taken the telephone to invoke each actions arsenic envisaged nether Stage-III of extant GRAP - ‘Severe’ Air Quality (DELHI AQI ranging betwixt 401-450), with contiguous effect, successful the full NCR. This is successful summation to the actions nether Stages I & II of extant GRAP already in-force successful NCR,” an authoritative connection said.
Stage 3 of GRAP includes a prohibition connected operation and demolition activities successful the full NCR.
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Also, classes for students up to people 5 person to beryllium mandatorily shifted to ‘hybrid mode’ successful Delhi and besides successful Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Gautam Buddh Nagar districts of the NCR.
It besides includes a prohibition connected plying of BS III petrol and BS IV diesel LMVs (four wheelers) successful Delhi and besides successful Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar of the NCR.
Earlier successful the day, a heavy broad of smog shrouded the nationalist superior and the aerial prime scale (AQI) stood astatine 397. Of the full monitoring stations successful Delhi, 21 were successful the ‘severe’ class with AQI readings crossing the 400-mark, information from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed.
