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A Water tanker spray to power contamination level successful New Delhi. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna)
Following a days’ agelong spell of terrible contamination successful the National Capital Region, the Union authorities connected Thursday advised each its Ministries, Departments and organisations with offices successful Delhi and NCR to follow staggered timings and promote car-pooling.
In an bureau memorandum, the Department of Personnel and Training said “in presumption of the severe+ aerial contamination levels successful Delhi”, the Central authorities ministries, departments and organisations were advised to travel the steps successful the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) by the Commission for Air Quality Management till GRAP-IV is successful force. The offices would person staggered timings till GRAP-IV is successful unit – 9am to 5.30pm and 10am to 6.30 pm.
“The officers/ unit utilizing idiosyncratic vehicles should beryllium encouraged to excavation vehicles and to usage nationalist transport to minimise the vehicular pollution,” DoPT said.
“These measures whitethorn beryllium adopted by Ministries/Departments/Organisations arsenic per their functional requirements ensuring that it should not person an adverse interaction connected ratio and productivity successful immoderate manner,” it added.
On Monday, an organisation representing authorities employees, the Central Secretariat Service Forum, had written to the DoPT caput seeking work-from-home option, proviso of aerial purifiers successful each Central authorities offices and N95 masks for each staff.
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