New Delhi: With Delhi’s air quality remaining in the ‘severe’ category for the second consecutive day on Thursday, all classes for students up to Class V for all schools in Delhi-NCR have been switched to online mode.
The action is part of measures undertaken as part of the invocation of GRAP stage III by the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) and will come into effect starting 8 am on Friday. Delhi’s 24-hour average air quality on Thursday recorded at 4 pm was 424 AQI, in the ‘severe’ category.
While GRAP-3 is in effect, construction and demolition will be halted, all non-essential mining activities will be suspended, non-electric, non-CNG, and non-BS-VI diesel interstate buses will be restricted, and schools are suggested to shut till Class 5 in Delhi-NCR.
Further, construction and demolition activities that generate dust have been banned. Exceptions to this are activities to build projects such as metro, railways and linear public projects like highways, roads and flyovers.
A restriction on running BS III petrol and BS IV diesel-operated four-wheelers in Delhi and the districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar are also part of the measures.
Of the city’s 39 monitoring stations, 32 recorded AQI levels over 400 at 9 am on Thursday, including Anand Vihar and IGI Airport. This marks Delhi’s worst air quality reading of the season and the highest in the country.
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