Overview
- Delhi’s 24-hour average AQI hovered around 380 on Sunday, with 14 of 39 monitoring stations in the severe range, including Wazirpur, Bawana, Jahangirpuri and Anand Vihar.
- CAQM revised the GRAP schedule on November 21, advancing some Stage IV actions to Stage III so restrictions such as 50% office attendance are triggered earlier.
- Acting on the new protocol, the Delhi government advised private offices to keep only half their staff on-site and introduced staggered timings for GNCTD and MCD offices to cut peak-hour traffic.
- Inspection and enforcement drives continued across NCR, with authorities reporting hundreds of site checks and multiple show-cause notices and closures for violations.
- Courts stepped in on health and welfare: the Delhi High Court halted outdoor school sports, and the Supreme Court directed subsistence allowances for construction workers affected by GRAP-3 curbs; official source estimates point to transport as the top local PM2.5 contributor (~16%) with stubble burning low (~2%).