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As the wide aerial prime of Delhi worsened to the “severe” category, the Commission for Air Quality Management successful NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) connected Tuesday (November 11, 2025) greeting imposed stricter exigency aerial contamination power measures successful the full National Capital Region.
“Keeping successful presumption the prevailing inclination of aerial quality, and successful an effort to forestall further deterioration of aerial prime successful the region, the Sub-Committee (of the CAQM) contiguous has taken the telephone to invoke each actions arsenic envisaged nether Stage-III of extant GRAP – ‘Severe’ Air Quality, 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,” the CAQM said successful a statement.
The determination was taken aft Delhi’s mean Air Quality Index (AQI) roseate sharply from 362 connected Monday to 425 connected Tuesday greeting owed to calm winds, a unchangeable ambiance and unfavourable upwind conditions that allowed pollutants to accumulate adjacent to the surface, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said.
The implementation of Stage III curbs, which see a prohibition connected non-essential operation enactment and closure of chromatic crushers and mining activities, is successful summation to the actions already enforced nether Stages I and II of GRAP.
Classes up to Class 5 are required to displacement to hybrid mode nether Stage 3. Parents and students person the enactment to take online acquisition wherever available.
Under Stage 3, the usage of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel cars (4-wheelers) is restricted successful Delhi and adjacent NCR districts. Persons with disabilities are exempt.
During winters, the Delhi-NCR portion enforces restrictions nether GRAP, which categorises aerial prime into 4 stages - Stage I (Poor, AQI 201-300), Stage II (Very Poor, AQI 301-400), Stage III (Severe, AQI 401-450), and Stage IV (Severe Plus, AQI supra 450).
(With PTI inputs)
