Delhi air pollution: Supreme Court flags GRAP-4 lapses, seeks report on heavy vehicles' entry
Hindustan TimesThe Supreme Court on Friday resumed hearing in the plea seeking directions to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR. The Supreme Court held that the Delhi government and city police failed to implement GRAP Stage 4 restrictions regarding heavy vehicles entering the Capital. During the last hearing earlier this week over air pollution in Delhi and its nearby cities of Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad - all of which fall under NCR - the Supreme Court directed all Delhi-NCR states to immediately set up teams to strictly enforce anti-pollution GRAP 4 restrictions, making it clear that the curbs will continue till further orders. -The top court on Monday also faulted the Commission for Air Quality Management for "delaying" the implementation of Graded Response Action Plan and said it followed a "wrong" approach. -The Supreme Court bench said the approach adopted by the CAQM seems to be that it decided to wait for improvement of the AQI and therefore implementation of Stage 3 and Stage 4 was delayed.