{"id":226307,"date":"2025-10-20T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226307\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:04:10","slug":"delhi-pollution-alert-air-quality-very-poor-on-eve-of-diwali-grap-2-imposed-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226307\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi pollution alert: Air quality \u2018very poor\u2019 on eve of Diwali; Grap-2 imposed | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760943850_587_-.jpg\" alt=\"Delhi pollution alert: Air quality \u2018very poor\u2019 on eve of Diwali; Grap-2 imposed\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: The capital\u2019s air quality slipped to the \u2018very poor\u2019 category by late Sunday evening, a day before Diwali, prompting CAQM to impose stage 2 of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap). Stage 2 of the plan restricts use of DG sets across NCR and bars interstate buses, other than those running on electricity, CNG or BS-VI diesel, from entering Delhi.According to forecasts, unfavourable weather conditions and emissions from firecrackers on Diwali are likely to worsen the air quality to \u2018severe\u2019 levels by Tuesday. At 4pm Sunday, the city\u2019s average air quality index (AQI) during the preceding 24 hours stood at 296, in the upper end of the \u2018poor\u2019 zone. By 7pm, the AQI had slipped into the \u2018very poor\u2019 range at 302. Air quality is likely to worsen to the higher end of \u2018very poor\u2019 on the festival day (Monday).<\/p>\n<p>Need to check the air quality around yourself? Check out this Google Maps feature<\/p>\n<p>The impact of l emissions due to firecrackers is likely to stay in the air through most of the week, with no respite from extremely toxic air likely until at least Friday, as winds are expected to remain calm, analysts said. According to the forecast by the Air Quality Early Warning System, further deterioration of air quality to the higher end of the \u2018very poor\u2019 category is expected by Diwali day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: The capital\u2019s air quality slipped to the \u2018very poor\u2019 category by late Sunday evening, a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9615,108298,49,48,108299,9275,9274,9276,9277,108296,108297,295,108300,108301,66,9278],"class_list":{"0":"post-226307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-air-pollution","9":"tag-aqi-levels","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-caqm","13":"tag-delhi-latest-news","14":"tag-delhi-news","15":"tag-delhi-news-live","16":"tag-delhi-news-today","17":"tag-delhi-pollution","18":"tag-diwali-air-quality","19":"tag-environment","20":"tag-grap-2","21":"tag-ncr","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-today-news-delhi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}