GRAP 4 curbs revoked in Delhi-NCR as air quality improves to ‘very poor’ category

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Delhi’s three-day tally  of ‘severe’ aerial  contamination  ended connected  Tuesday (January 20, 2026) morning, with the city’s mean  Air Quality Index (AQI) showing a marginal betterment  and settling successful  the ‘very poor’ class  astatine  395.

Delhi’s three-day tally of ‘severe’ aerial contamination ended connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) morning, with the city’s mean Air Quality Index (AQI) showing a marginal betterment and settling successful the ‘very poor’ class astatine 395. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

The Centre's contamination watchdog connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) revoked curbs nether Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) successful Delhi-NCR arsenic the capital's aerial prime improved.

In an order, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said that actions nether Stage 1, 2 and 3 of the revised GRAP will, however, stay successful force.

"While GRAP Stage-4 is being revoked, keeping successful presumption the wintertime play erstwhile upwind conditions whitethorn not beryllium ever favourable and successful bid to guarantee that the AQI levels bash not gaffe further, citizens are requested to strictly adhere to the national charter nether GRAP Stage-1, 2 & 3," the bid said.

Published - January 20, 2026 06:05 p.m. IST

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