Summary:
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has recorded ’severe’ air quality, meaning that the intensity of pollution was extreme. Firefighters spray water onto trees on the roadside in a bid to curb air pollution by combating accumulated dust in New Delhi on Friday. On April 21, last year, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had told NGT that there was no data to suggest that the odd-even scheme has led to a decline in vehicular pollution in Delhi-NCR. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Delhi government to submit before it the details of the ambient air quality during the earlier implementation of the odd-even scheme. The AAP government had on Thursday announced introduction of the odd-even scheme as part of a Graded Response Plan to tackle the alarming pollution situation in the national capital..