India, Nov. 17 -- With the air quality index (AQI) worsening in the city, the Noida authority has formed 14 teams to implement the graded response plan (Grap) stage 3 restrictions on the ground.

The step follows directions of the Commission for Air Quality Management to impose the stage-3 pollution curbs that include ban on non-essential construction and demolition, all construction sites be covered with green sheet, and the sites must be also barricaded with steel sheet.

"As the air has entered into the bad category in entire Delhi-NCR we have directed the teams to take harsh steps to enforce the same strictly so that we can help in mitigation of the pollution," said Noida authority's CEO Lokesh M.

The teams' work sphere includes insp...