Delhi's AQI stays 'poor' as city braces for worsening air quality around Diwali

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The spike in AQI -- over 200 -- also prompted the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR and adjoining areas to hold an emergency meeting and invoke stage-1 measures of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across NCR with immediate effect.
56% : The plan, meant to be enforced annually, usually sees multiple stages get triggered in the winter months, as Delhi's air quality nosedives. Stage-1 largely has 'preventive' rather than 'restrictive' measures and lists 27 directions, including periodic mechanised sweeping and water sprinkling on roads, strict vigilance of PUC norms and action against visibility polluting vehicles, regular lifting of solid waste and stopping construction and demolition (C&D) sites in Delhi with an area of more than 500 sqm which are not registered with the state government through their online portal on dust.

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