Diesel generator sets will be banned in Delhi-NCR from Thursday as the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) — to curb air pollution in the city — comes into effect. Banning of diesel gensets is a constant cause of power-cut worries as thousands of residents of NCR towns are still not linked to the power grid. On Wednesday, the AQI in Delhi was ‘poor’ with a value of 276. On Tuesday, this value was 300, with PM 2.5 and PM 10 as primary pollutants.
The Delhi government, meanwhile, announced that the use of diesel generators will be allowed only in hospitals or nursing homes, lifts and escalators, Railway services, Delhi Metro, airports and inter-state bus terminals, and the National Information Centre data centre.
Under GRAP, several pollution control measures come into effect as the concentration of pollutants in the air increases.
