Air pollution: Delhi goes for a soft battle against a tough enemy

Pollution grows unabated amid faulty policies and delays: Experts

November 22 marked another significant day in Delhi’s fight against its most enduring enemy — air pollution. A day after the Supreme Court asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to reconsider the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap), CAQM introduced major tweaks to pollution control measures. Under the reforms, some restrictions under Grap-IV will now be implemented at the Grap-III level, including provisions for work-from-home and 50 per cent office capacity. Similarly, some Grap-III measures will now come into effect at the Grap-II stage.

 

This comes after Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) has remained above 350 every day since