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Gurugram may join in to implement odd- even scheme( Vehicle Rationing) when the air quality deteriorates to 'emergency' category, Delhi NCR gears up to combat the Air Pollution caused to the stubble burning in the neighbouring states during the winter season. Deputy commissioner Amit Khatri said that they weren't ruling out the chance of implementing the theme in Gurugram on the lines of the project in urban center . The deputy commissioner in his letter dated on October 9, 2019 addressing to all the departments and authorities in Gurugram with the detailed guidelines to check the Air Quality Index (AQI) and asked them to implement the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme. The Supreme Court-mandated setting Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) had last month asked urban center and its neighbour states to begin implementing the stratified Response Action arrange (GRAP) from October 15 2019. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal proclaimed the main points of the vehicle rationing scheme within the Capital, which will be implemented from November 4-15. While no relief would be extended to in camera closely-held CNG vehicles below the odd-even theme, ladies would be exempted. During the 12-day theme, vehicles can ply alternately on odd and even dates as per their registration numbers. In the previous 2 experiments in 2016, a fine of Rs a pair of 1,000 was imposed on the violators of the rule.
According to the stratified response action arrange (GRAP) devised by the Central Pollution instrument panel, the odd-even scheme for personal vehicles is enforced once the pollution level at 'severe plus' category persists for 48 hours or more. The pollution level in urban center remains low in eleven months of a year however picks up in November because of shuck (parali) burning within the neighbour states. Dense cloud of smoke covers urban center, which becomes a gas chamber, Kejriwal had said. The scheme had met with some opposition and therefore the Central Pollution instrument panel had told the National inexperienced assembly in 2016 that there's no knowledge to counsel that odd-even scheme has any impact on decrease in transport pollution and therefore the fluctuations in PM10 and PM2.5 is because of weather and alter in wind patterns.
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