Delhi transport minister Kailash Gahlot on Thursday urged the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) to implement the odd-even road rationing scheme in neighbouring states as a solution to bring down overall pollution levels in Delhi-NCR. "The Delhi government immediately announced the implementation of third phase of odd-even, as air pollution reached emergency levels in order to comply with GRAP. However, unfortunately, the impression that is getting generated is that only Delhi needs to implement the scheme as mandated by GRAP," write Gahlot. The minister further requested EPCA chief to advise neighbouring towns to implement the odd-even scheme as well, in order to bring down the pollution levels. While the air quality has improved from the past week, it was still in the 'very poor' category.

Source: dna November 16, 2017 14:37 UTC