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recorded an AQI of 456, IGI airport at 397, ITO at 411, Okhla at 425, Pusa at 416, RK Puram at 446, Wazirpur at 449 and Vivek Nagar from 440.

Areas of NCR, together with Noida reported the identical class, with 529, Gurugram at 478 and Dhirpur at 534.

Almost all air high quality monitoring stations recorded “severe” class, with not less than 13 of them logging an AQI of over 450 on Friday. The 24-hour common air high quality index (AQI) of Delhi stood at 447 at 2 pm Friday.

PM2.5, the lung damaging particles had been above 470 micrograms per cubic metre. This is eight occasions over the secure restrict of micrograms per cubic metre.

Delhi authorities determined to invoke the ultimate stage of anti-pollution curbs beneath GRAP — a set of anti-pollution measures adopted in Delhi and its surrounding cities based on the severity of the scenario. This included a ban on non-BS VI diesel-run mild motor autos, ban on entry of vehicles aside from electrical and CNG ones, and a development ban.

In a bid to ramp up public transport, the federal government will even launch the “Paryavaran Bus Service”, which is able to embrace 500 privately-run CNG buses, information company PTI mentioned.

Stubble burning accounted for 30 per cent of the PM2.5 air pollution within the capital, based on the Central Pollution Control Board and SAFAR, a forecasting company beneath the Ministry of Earth and Sciences.

In a joint presser with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, the AAP authorities took duty for “excessive” stubble burning in neighboring Punjab that was resulting in a rise in air pollution ranges. “We have our government in Punjab and we are responsible if ‘parali’ is being burnt there. Farmers are not responsible for it,” Kejriwal mentioned.

Kejriwal mentioned air air pollution within the winters was not a “Delhi-specific problem”, including that it affected total northern India and that there ought to be no blame recreation and politics on the difficulty.

Politically, the BJP and AAP have been buying and selling barbs over the difficulty of rising air pollution, particularly stubble burning.

The variety of stubble burning incidents in Punjab rose 12.59 per cent year-on-year to 26,583 within the final 50 days, with a rise in such instances after Diwali, date by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) reveals.

The state had reported 2,413 and a pair of,512 energetic hearth incidents on November 3 in 2020 and 2021 respectively, as per the info. The farmers continued to set crop residue on hearth with the intention to clear fields for sowing the subsequent crop–wheat and greens.

The matter additionally reached the Supreme Court on Friday, and is about for an early listening to on November 10. The apex court docket has been requested to shift faculties and workplaces on-line and make provision to extend extra smog towers. The plea additional requested to arrange a high-level committee beneath the management of a retired Supreme Court choose.

Meanwhile, a tremendous of Rs 20,000 shall be given to those that violate Delhi authorities’s car ban, a senior official mentioned. “Violating these curbs can attract a fine of Rs 20,000 under the Motor Vehicles Act,” mentioned an official.  For commuters’ comfort, public transport providers shall be augmented. The transport division will rent as much as 1,000 personal CNG contract carriage buses by means of DTC for 60 days, based on an announcement.

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