{"id":6274,"date":"2024-12-28T01:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/delhi-pollution-curbs-eased-to-grap-2-whats-allowed-whats-not\/Click%20on%20this%20link%20to%20get%20updated%20with%20the%20latest%20news"},"modified":"2024-12-28T01:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:39:16","slug":"delhi-pollution-curbs-eased-to-grap-2-whats-allowed-whats-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=6274","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Pollution Curbs Eased To GRAP 2: What&#8217;s Allowed, What&#8217;s Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Delhi gets respite from toxic air with improved air quality due to continuous rains, Centre&#8217;s panel on Delhi-NCR&#8217;s air quality on Friday lifted stringent pollution curbs under stage 3 of GRAP in the national capital and surrounding areas with immediate effect. However, pollution restrictions under stage 2 of GRAP are in place in the national capital region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delhi&#8217;s air pollution levels showed a declining trend and the 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 324 at 7 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to forecasts from the India Meteorological Department and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, the air quality situation is predicted to improve further owing to favourable meteorological conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission for Air Quality Management, responsible for strategizing air pollution mitigation in Delhi-NCR, said curbs prescribed under stage 1 and 2 will remain in force in the region.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>So, what does it mean?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Under stage 2 of GRAP, measures such as mechanised sweeping of roads, use of anti-smog guns, and sprinkling water daily will be taken to tackle dust with focused attention on identified air pollution hotspots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Power suppliers need to ensure uninterrupted supply so that the use of diesel generator sets can be minimised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alerts will be issued through newspapers, television, and radio to advise people about air pollution levels.<\/p>\n<p>Further, to ensure that the air quality index in Delhi NCR doesn&#8217;t slip into &#8216;very poor&#8217; or &#8216;severe&#8217; category again, people are advised to use public transport and ditch personal vehicles whenever possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People are also requested to take a less congested route to their destination even if it is slightly longer along with regularly replacing air filters in their automobiles at recommended intervals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What&#8217;s not allowed<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ban on the use of coal and firewood will still be in place in Delhi NCR, including the use of tandoors at restaurants and hotels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Use of diesel generators sets will also not be allowed except for emergency and essential services under GRAP 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All construction and demolition sites and industrial units which have specific closure orders against them are also not allowed to resume operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bAs Delhi gets respite from toxic air with improved air quality due to continuous rains, Centre&#8217;s panel on Delhi-NCR&#8217;s air quality on Friday lifted stringent pollution curbs under stage 3 of GRAP in the national capital and surrounding areas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Delhi gets respite from toxic air with improved air quality due to continuous rains, Centre&#8217;s panel on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ajaqgeq8_delhi-air-pollution_625x300_28_November_24-2NmsC6-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}