Summary:
GRAP, which has an advisory for each category of air pollution — emergency, severe, very poor, moderate, poor — will be implemented in Delhi-NCR between October 15 and March 15. The much talked about Odd-Even road rationing system is all set to return to the Capital this winter, when the graded response action plan (GRAP) to curb air pollution rolls out on October 15. "We have already issued letters to NCR states, including Haryana and Punjab, against crop burning, which contributes heavily to city pollution. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) — a Supreme Court (SC) mandated body to monitor air pollution in the city, has prepared the GRAP. The plan suggests that "Odd-Even system to be implemented" during the "severe" and "emergency" categories of air quality..