Summary:
Delhi’s air quality “improved significantly” and temperature is likely to fall, but the air quality is “far from safe”, authorities said. Last month, Lal had said the use of private vehicles could be stopped in Delhi if air pollution got worse. The air quality was still in ‘very poor’ category with AQI of 306, according to the Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting (SAFAR). Bhure Lal, chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), recommended to the pollution watchdog CPCB on Wednesday that it should implement either the odd-even scheme or impose a complete ban on non-CNG private vehicles if the air pollution level in Delhi increases again. His comments came after Delhi’s air quality turned 'severe' for the first time this season..