Quality of Delhi Air – Very Poor: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority, appointed by the Supreme Court directed the authorities on Friday to act immediately and enforce the graded response action under ‘very poor’ category for Delhi and ‘moderate poor’ fro NCR.
“Air quality for Delhi is very poor. Measures falling under this category of Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) have to be taken”, Sunita Narain, EPCA member and Head of Centre for Science and environment (CSE) said.
Quality of Delhi Air – Very Poor – EPCA says quick action will be taken to correct it
As for now, EPCA has provided enough time to the authorities and the people of NCR region to prepare for the stringent rules under the new amendments in the near future. EPCA had decided to levy heavy fines for wrong parking. However, for now, it has not adopted the extreme level actions such as banning the use of diesel generators etc. The brick kilns will also be refurbished in order to reduce the air pollution coming from them.
“There are many brick kilns in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana, which have not yet adopted to the low-polluting methods, such as zig-zag chimneys. From now on, the authorities concerned will work on that”, an EPCA member said.
EPCA said that the air pollution condition is already beyond poor in Delhi and the smog situation is worse which requires immediate action of the administration. Bhure Lal, EPCA Chairperson said that the directions have been issued to the Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan governments as per the thought-out plan.
