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GRAP: Air Quality Readings as a Legal Trigger

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 1 claim and 9 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-15740b5492351ac0 quantitative

In 2025, GRAP stages were invoked only after the AQI had already climbed past the threshold on 13 of 17 occasions

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The entry notes independent reviewers find the mechanism reactive in practice.
Caveat: Delhi's monitors have been accused of being sprayed with water or dropping offline at peak pollution.

Sources carrying this claim

CEEW — How can GRAP deliver more sustained improvement in air quality? (21 May 2026)

Source dossiers and revision state

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM); monitoring network run by Delhi Pollution Control Committee, Central Pollution Control Board, IMD and IITM
Actor types: national-government, city-government, research
Funding model: public
Funding description: Not recorded
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

9 source dossiers

CAQM — Graded Response Action Plan schedule (official document) caqm.nic.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-6b8cccbc2b5d562d
Publisher: Name not classified · caqm.nic.in
Type / language: pdf · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
The operative GRAP schedule published by the Commission for Air Quality Management: the four stages, their AQI bands and the measures attached to each.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

PIB — CAQM revises GRAP schedule, making it more stringent (21 Nov 2025) pib.gov.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-1df5e0db1641f943
Publisher: Name not classified · pib.gov.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2025-11-21
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Most recent revision: measures moved into earlier stages. Confirms the regime is active and being tightened.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

PIB — CAQM invokes Stage-III of GRAP in the entire NCR pib.gov.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-52d2ac68935cba3d
Publisher: Name not classified · pib.gov.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2025-11-11
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
A worked example of the trigger firing: AQI of 425 recorded at 9 AM, Stage-III restrictions imposed the same day by the CAQM GRAP sub-committee.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

India Code — Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas Act, 2021 indiacode.nic.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-16741c63db3cec9f
Publisher: Name not classified · indiacode.nic.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
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Act 29 of 2021, assent 12 August 2021. The statutory basis for CAQM, which replaced the Supreme Court-mandated EPCA as the body that invokes GRAP.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Government of NCT of Delhi, Department of Environment — Ambient Air Quality environment.delhi.gov.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-0c68ecb2bf3d340e
Publisher: Name not classified · environment.delhi.gov.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2026-07-24
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
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Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Official statement that DPCC operates 26 real-time monitoring stations connected to the central network; other Delhi stations are run by CPCB, IMD, IITM and MoHUA.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

data.gov.in — SAMEER (National Air Quality Index), CPCB data.gov.in · background

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Stable source ID: src-984d07f3f118de2f
Publisher: Name not classified · data.gov.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2016-07-27
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
CPCB's public AQI app and dataset: hourly AQI updates plus a citizen complaint function, released under India's National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Ravish — Stage-wise evaluation of GRAP under meteorological constraints in Delhi-NCR, Discover Atmosphere (2026) link.springer.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-55a046bc2ef1a0c0
Publisher: Name not classified · link.springer.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2026-04-15
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Peer-reviewed. Finds Stage I and II show measurable improvement but Stage III and IV little; concludes GRAP gives limited, meteorology-dependent short-term relief limited by reactive activation.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

CEEW — How can GRAP deliver more sustained improvement in air quality? (21 May 2026) ceew.in · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID: src-2d015e486f342f87
Publisher: Name not classified · ceew.in
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2026-05-21
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Independent research institute. Documents the invocation lag (13 of 17 occasions in 2025) and the coverage gap: 40 stations against an estimated 52-60 needed, covering about a third of Delhi's area.
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Claims linked: clm-15740b5492351ac0

Newslaundry — Delhi AQI 'fraud': water sprinklers cleaning the data, not the air (30 Oct 2025) newslaundry.com · background

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Stable source ID: src-47b937c11a0081ce
Publisher: Name not classified · newslaundry.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2025-10-30
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-07-26
Dossier created: 2026-08-20
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
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Locator: Open the recorded source note
Reporters observed PWD tankers repeatedly watering the ground around monitors at Jahangirpuri and Anand Vihar; earlier reporting found stations sited behind trees and walls, against placement norms.
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Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.