NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority announced on Saturday fresh anti-pollution measures in Delhi-NCR from November 1 under the Graded Response Action Plan. These include a halt in construction activities for 10 days, shutting down of coal and biomass-based industries over the November 4-10 period and an advisory asking people to limit their exposure to the air.
EPCA chairperson Bhure Lal wrote to the chief secretaries of the four NCR states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP on these steps a day after the task force on GRAP, chaired by the member-secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board, recommended these measures. Based on the forecast of adverse weather condition beginning from November 1 and its potential to exacerbate the pollution level, “the task force has advised EPCA that there is a need to bring additional measures to combat pollution”, Bhure Lal explained in his letter.
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