The chief minister, after an emergency meeting, told reporters that his government will also present a proposal for lockdown before the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice said stubble burning may be part of the problem, but not the only issue behind severe air pollution in the capital.
On Thursday too, the air quality had plunged into the 'severe category' by reporting an AQI of 404 in the city.
The layer of eye-stinging smog lingering over Delhi-NCR thickened on Friday, giving an orange tint to the sun and lowering visibility to 200 metres at several places in the region reeling under hazardous pollution levels since early November.
This year, the festival began on November 8 with the 'Nahai Khai' ritual and will conclude on November 11 with devotees performing 'Usha Arghya' (prayers to the rising sun).
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'.
Dr Seth said, "People who recovered from COVID are vulnerable to air pollution. Of this group, a lot of them got residue lung problems from minor to major. The toxic gases and particles affect the lungs directly."
Earlier on Friday, the overall air quality of Delhi was plunged into upper end of the very poor category, SAFAR informed.
Gopal Rai said Delhi's base pollution has remained the same. Only two factors have been added - firecrackers and stubble burning.
AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'.
Vehicles are periodically tested for various pollutants like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide emitted from it. After this, they are given the PUC certificate.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai visited the ITO crossing and appealed to the public to extend their support to make this fight against pollution a success.
The chief minister said that it is high time that Delhiites took responsibility to bring pollution down.
All project proponents are required to mandatorily register on the web portal.
Gopal Rai made the suggestions during an online meeting of NCR states convened by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav.
New Delhi will witness a partially cloudy sky on Tuesday, however, there is no possibility of rain yet.
A thick layer of toxic foam was found floating on the surface of river Yamuna near Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area. River Yamuna is again overflowing with thick foam of toxic due to high level of pollution in Delhi. The toxic chemical is cause due to dumping of waste materials into water body, industrial wastes.
The Delhi government in its annual budget for 2021-22 presented on Tuesday allocated an amount of Rs 9,394 crore to improve the city's pollution situation which constantly has been a challenging task for the last several years.
Delhi's air quality is in 'very poor' category, as per System of Air Quality & Weather Forecasting & Research.
The IMD also predicted similar conditions over other parts of the country, including "Dense to very dense (fog) at isolated places over Punjab and Haryana.
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