Overview
- The CAQM invoked Stage 3 restrictions across the NCR with immediate effect after Delhi’s average AQI jumped from 362 on Monday to 425 at 9 am Tuesday.
- CPCB’s Sameer app showed most stations in the severe band, including Bawana at 462, Wazirpur at 460, and Mundka and Punjabi Bagh at 452.
- Non-essential construction and demolition are halted, stone crushers and mining are shut, and BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers are barred in Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Noida.
- Primary classes up to Grade 5 shift to hybrid learning with online options, and private offices are advised to adopt work-from-home or hybrid arrangements to cut traffic emissions.
- Essential public infrastructure works such as rail, metro, airports, defence, sanitation, and healthcare continue under strict dust and waste controls, with Stage 3 measures layered on top of Stages 1 and 2 until air quality improves.