Delhi’s air quality: Activists demand independent regulator, transparent data

Delhi’s air quality has once again dipped into the ‘very poor’ category, with several areas recording AQI levels above 300.

Despite this, authorities have yet to implement the next stage of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP-III), which restricts non-essential construction, BS-III and BS-IV vehicles, and physical classes up to grade five.

As the crisis deepens, environmental activists Vimlendu Jha, Founder of Swechha and Bhavreen Kandhari, Green Activist, joined CNBC-TV18 to discuss the recurring pollution emergency and the government’s response.

Jha said that this year’s situation was “particularly unfortunate” because the problem goes beyond pollution—it includes the manipulation of air quality data.

He noted that several monitoring stations either stopped reporting or displayed i