NEW DELHI: As air high quality deteriorated to ‘extreme plus’ throughout Delhi-NCR, the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM) on Saturday directed Delhi and NCR state governments to make sure the speedy suspension of all out of doors bodily sports activities actions, warning that their continuation poses a “severe well being threat to kids.“In a letter to the chief secretaries of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the Fee stated it was involved that “some faculties and establishments in Delhi-NCR have been nonetheless holding out of doors sports activities actions” regardless of earlier instructions issued in keeping with a Supreme Court docket order dated November 19.It stated permitting out of doors bodily actions in periods of antagonistic air high quality is “opposite to the spirit and intent of the apex court docket’s observations and the Fee’s directions.”The directive got here because the CAQM invoked the strictest measures beneath its Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP), Stage IV on Saturday, after air pollution ranges rose sharply attributable to unfavourable meteorological situations. The Fee stated it had earlier, in a letter dated November 19, known as for the “postponement of bodily sports activities competitions scheduled throughout November and December.”The CAQM requested the Delhi authorities and NCR states to make sure strict and speedy compliance with its instructions. It additionally requested the federal government to situation obligatory directions to varsities, academic establishments, sports activities our bodies and native authorities to discontinue out of doors bodily sports activities actions, and sensitise faculties and fogeys concerning the related well being dangers.Authorities have been additionally instructed to carefully monitor compliance on the bottom and take motion towards violations.Beneath GRAP IV restrictions, all building and demolition actions in Delhi-NCR have been banned, together with linear public initiatives corresponding to highways, roads, flyovers, energy transmission traces, pipelines and telecom works.The entry of vans into Delhi has been stopped, besides these carrying important commodities or offering important providers, with CNG, LNG, electrical and BS-VI diesel vans exempted.Faculties in Delhi and essentially the most affected NCR districts have been directed to run courses in a hybrid mode for college students from main courses as much as Courses VI to IX and XI, with the choice of on-line attendance the place possible.State governments have been requested to think about extra emergency measures if air pollution ranges worsen additional, together with closing faculties and academic establishments, shutting non-essential business actions and introducing odd-even automobile restrictions.