Air quality in NCR 'very poor': CAQM

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 17

The air quality is “very poor”, the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) said today, recommending a phased approach in respect of opening the construction sector considering the air quality scenario in the NCR.

Keeping in view the current air quality, it would not be desirable to permit unrestricted activities at construction and demolition (C&D) sites, according to the CAQM.

Restrictions on many C&D activities will continue in the NCR till further orders of the commission. But exemptions have been granted to projects related to hospitals, nursing homes, healthcare facilities, linear public projects and public utility projects, it said.