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Starting with A, if AQI reaches a new high it might be labelled Alarming, Appalling, or even Apocalyptic.“>
As the new year dawns NCR continues to GRAPple with the deadly bane of pollution – a recent proposal being a Supreme Court order to impose a year-round ban on fireworks in Delhi – authorities entrusted with the task of curbing the menace face a semantic challenge.
GRAP, or Graded Response Action Plan, to tackle pollution comes in four stages, depending on the numeric evaluation of AQI, Air Quality Index.
When AQI reaches a level designated as Poor, GRAP I, which imposes some restrictions, kicks in. When AQI is tagged as Very Poor, GRAP II comes into play, and so on to Severe, and Very Severe, wherein GRAP IV is rolled out, with schools partially or wholly shut, office staff urged to work from home, and construction activity brought to a halt.
The problem is that with AQI termed Poor having become the new Normal, successive ratings have in the public mind been correspondingly downgraded, with Very Severe losing the Very and becoming Merely Severe. What happens if the situation worsens and GRAP V or even GRAP VI has to be implemented?
A new set of adjectival AQI terminology has to be formulated to meet the occasion. In order to do this the authorities might do worse than to go back to their ABCs.
Starting with A, if AQI reaches a new high it might be labelled Alarming, Appalling, or even Apocalyptic.
B may prove problematic AQI-wise. Benighted could be a possibility, though admittedly a weak candidate. And Bloody Hell! might be ruled out as being epithetical and unparliamentary.
However, as though to make up for B’s verbal shortcomings, C comes with an embarrassment of riches. There’s Catastrophic, and Calamitous, and Cataclysmic, and even Catatonic.
D can provide Desperate, Disastrous, Devastating, Despairing, and Doomsday.
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When AQI reaches a level designated as Poor, GRAP I, which imposes some restrictions, kicks in. When AQI is tagged as Very Poor, GRAP II comes into play, and so on to Severe, and Very Severe, wherein GRAP IV is rolled out, with schools partially or wholly shut, office staff urged to work from home, and construction activity brought to a halt.
- Updated On Jan 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM IST
Starting with A, if AQI reaches a new high it might be labelled Alarming, Appalling, or even Apocalyptic.“>
As the new year dawns NCR continues to GRAPple with the deadly bane of pollution – a recent proposal being a Supreme Court order to impose a year-round ban on fireworks in Delhi – authorities entrusted with the task of curbing the menace face a semantic challenge. GRAP, or Graded Response Action Plan, to tackle pollution comes in four stages, depending on the numeric evaluation of AQI, Air Quality Index.
When AQI reaches a level designated as Poor, GRAP I, which imposes some restrictions, kicks in. When AQI is tagged as Very Poor, GRAP II comes into play, and so on to Severe, and Very Severe, wherein GRAP IV is rolled out, with schools partially or wholly shut, office staff urged to work from home, and construction activity brought to a halt.
The problem is that with AQI termed Poor having become the new Normal, successive ratings have in the public mind been correspondingly downgraded, with Very Severe losing the Very and becoming Merely Severe. What happens if the situation worsens and GRAP V or even GRAP VI has to be implemented?
A new set of adjectival AQI terminology has to be formulated to meet the occasion. In order to do this the authorities might do worse than to go back to their ABCs.
Starting with A, if AQI reaches a new high it might be labelled Alarming, Appalling, or even Apocalyptic.
B may prove problematic AQI-wise. Benighted could be a possibility, though admittedly a weak candidate. And Bloody Hell! might be ruled out as being epithetical and unparliamentary.
However, as though to make up for B’s verbal shortcomings, C comes with an embarrassment of riches. There’s Catastrophic, and Calamitous, and Cataclysmic, and even Catatonic. D can provide Desperate, Disastrous, Devastating, Despairing, and Doomsday.
- Published On Jan 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM IST
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