Centre intervenes as Delhi Air Quality enters severe category
New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre has decided to take measures to tackle the air emergency in Delhi after the Air Quality in the city entered the severe category.
Principal Secretary to PM P.K. Mishra, today reviewed at a high-level meeting, the situation arising out of severe air pollution in the National Capital Region, and other parts of North India.
Senior officials from the States of Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi, joined the meeting through video conferencing.
The Cabinet Secretary will monitor the situation with these States on a daily basis.
Chief Secretaries of these States have been asked to monitor the situation in various districts of their respective States, on a 24x7 basis.
This was the first of its kind intervention in the season after AQI remained around 625 AQI in over all Delhi on Sunday and touching the 999 mark at certain parts of the national capital like Bawana.
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