New Delhi is witnessing a thick layer of smog. file. |Photograph Credit score: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Delhi woke as much as thick smog on Saturday (November 15, 2025) morning, with the air high quality index (AQI) at 386 as of 8 am, falling beneath the ‘very poor’ class, in line with knowledge launched by the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB).
India Gate was virtually invisible this morning beneath a thick layer of smog as air high quality within the capital remained hazardous. The poisonous air continued a day after Delhi recorded an AQI of 397, additionally within the “very poor” vary.
The CPCB findings have confirmed alarming air pollution ranges in a number of areas of town. Ashok Vihar reported AQI of 415, Bawana 441, Burari Crossing 383, CRRI Mathura Highway 365, Chandni Chowk 419, Dwarka Sector-8 393, ITO 418, Jahangirpuri 422, JLN Stadium 389, Munka 426, Najafgarh 385 and Narela. 418, Papparganj 399, Punjabi Bagh 405, RK Puram 406, Rohini 423, Siri Fort 495, Sonia Vihar 410, Vivek Vihar 418, Wazirpur 447. Most of those locations fell into the “very poor” or “harsh” class.
In keeping with the CPCB classification, an AQI between 0 and 50 is taken into account “good,” 51 and 100 is “passable,” 101 and 200 is “reasonable,” 201 and 300 are “poor,” 301 and 400 are “very poor,” and 401 and 500 are “extreme.”
Because of the sharp deterioration of air high quality within the nationwide capital, the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM) has already carried out the third part of the Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP) throughout the Nationwide Capital Area. The measures goal to curb emissions by means of tighter limits on building, car motion and industrial operations.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court docket directed the governments of Punjab and Haryana to submit standing reviews on measures taken to curb stubble burning, which is contributing to the air air pollution disaster within the Delhi-NCR area.
A bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gabai and Justice Ok Vinod Chandran “directs the states of Punjab and Haryana to submit a report on what steps are being taken to curb stubble burning”.
Advocates within the case informed the courtroom that though the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CQAM) is implementing the Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP) GRAP-III, the state of affairs requires the implementation of GRAP-IV as an alternative.
Rules beneath GRAP-III embody a ban on most non-essential building actions, restrictions on BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers, suspension of courses for college kids as much as class 5 with transition to hybrid or on-line studying, restrictions on industrial operations depending on non-clean fuels, and ban on non-emergency diesel generator units.
The plan additionally limits industrial exercise at non-clean gasoline services and bans diesel generator units apart from emergencies.
