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The aerial prime successful the nationalist superior continued to stay successful the ‘severe’ class connected Wednesday greeting (November 12, 2025) for the 2nd time since it worsened for the archetypal clip this season, arsenic per authoritative data. This comes a time aft the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)-III was invoked crossed Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR).
Breaching the 400-mark crossed aggregate monitoring stations, Delhi’s 24-hour mean aerial prime scale (AQI) was 414 astatine 9 a.m., arsenic per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Among each monitoring stations, Wazirpur recorded the highest AQI of 459, categorised arsenic ‘severe’ aerial quality, portion NSIT Dwarka monitoring presumption recorded an AQI of 215, categorised arsenic ‘poor’ aerial quality.
The enforcement of GRAP III, a acceptable of exigency measures to curb rising aerial pollution, entails a prohibition connected operation and demolition activities crossed the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), arsenic good arsenic a prohibition connected the plying of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers successful Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Gautam Budh Nagar.
The restrictions volition instrumentality effect pursuing orders issued by the respective State governments. Existing restrictions nether the archetypal 2 stages of the GRAP volition besides stay successful effect nether GRAP III.
The CAQM besides announced that classes up to people 5 volition displacement to hybrid mode.
A ‘severe’ contamination level affects steadfast radical and earnestly impacts those with existing diseases, according to CPCB.
The aerial prime is expected to amended to the ‘very poor’ class by Wednesday, according to authoritative data.
An AQI betwixt 51 and 100 is “satisfactory”, 101 and 200 is termed arsenic “moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “severe”, arsenic per the CPCB.
With ANI inputs
