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Actions under GRAP stage- III revoked as Delhi's AQI witnesses improvement

New Delhi, Jan 22 (UNI) The Commission for Air Quality Management in the NCR, witnessing an improvement and a downward trend in average air quality index level since a couple days, on Thursday revoked the stage- III measures of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
The Sub-Committee on GRAP had invoked stage-III of extant GRAP when the average AQI of Delhi started to exhibit an increasing trend on January 16.
The commission said that Delhi's AQI has been improving owing to favourable meteorological conditions and was 322 on Thursday (very poor) category.
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