Once the plan is notified, emergency measures like odd-even car rationing scheme and ban on construction activities will be automatically enforced in the city if level of PM2.5 breaches 300 micrograms per cubic metre for two consecutive days.
The official said consultations are undergoing on many levels and it will be implemented in “due course of time”.
During ‘very poor’ air quality, diesel generators must be banned and parking free increased by 3-4 times, the plan recommends.
The plan has enumerated a number of other measures which include closing brick kilns, hot mix plants, stone crushers, intensifying public transport services besides increase in frequency of mechanised cleaning of road and sprinkling of water on roads.
From Agencies, Feature image courtesy hindustantimes
