{"id":9835,"date":"2022-10-10T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:13:46","slug":"graded-response-action-plan-grap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/graded-response-action-plan-grap\/","title":{"rendered":"Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The GRAP is a step-by-step plan to counter Delhi-NCR&#8217;s deteriorating air quality.<\/li>\n<li>It was formulated by the Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) jointly with the Delhi government in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>However, it is an emergency response mechanism and is only enforced when\u00a0air pollution\u00a0reaches a certain threshold.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, the plan is incremental and adaptable, which means the preventive measures will be updated and escalated according to changes in the AQI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Categories:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been prepared for implementation under different Air Quality Index (AQI) categories namely,\u00a0Moderate &amp; Poor, Very Poor, Severe, Severe+ and Emergency\u00a0as per National Air Quality Index.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u2018Moderate\u2019 to \u2018poor\u2019 category<\/strong>includes measures like stringent enforcement of PUC checks, prevention of waste burning and regulating polluting industries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0\u2018very poor\u2019 category<\/strong>includes measures like shutting down of diesel generator sets and enhancing parking fees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0\u2018severe\u2019\u00a0and \u2018severe plus\u2019 categories<\/strong>\u00a0include stringent measures like shutting down hot mix plants and stone crushers, intensifying public transport, stopping entry of trucks into Delhi, stopping construction activity and even implementing the odd-even scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G0IACGCR3.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAP is a set of emergency measures that kick in to prevent further deterioration of air quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}