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New Delhi: Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) reimposed GRAP stage-I curbs on Monday as the city's air quality turned poor, with an average AQI of 206 against moderate 194 a day earlier.

“Keeping in view this trend of improvement in the overall AQI of Delhi, the Grap Sub-Committee unanimously decides to withdraw Stage-I of the extant schedule of Grap,” the order said ...

has revoked the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage-I in Delhi-NCR after the national capital's Air Quality Index was recorded at 153 (moderate category) on Saturday. As of now, Stage I of ...

“Therefore, keeping in view this trend of improvement in the overall AQI of Delhi, the CAQM Sub-Committee unanimously decided to revoke Stage-I of the extant schedule of GRAP in the entire ...

This article is authored by Arun Duggal, founder, Centre of Excellence for Research in Climate Change and Air Pollution (CERCA), IIT Delhi.