New Delhi: All schools in Delhi will remain closed except for Classes 10 and 12 until further notice. Starting Monday (November 18) all schools across Delhi will discontinue its physical classes except for Class 10 and Class 12.  In a tweet on X, the Delhi Chief Minister Atishi added that all schools will hold online classes until further notice.

“With the imposition of GRAP-4 from tmrw, physical classes shall be discontinued for all students, apart from Class 10 and 12. All schools will hold online classes, until further orders,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, schools for all students till Class 5 have been ordered to shift online in Gurgaon, Faridabad. However, no order has been issued yet for schools in Noida and Ghaziabad.

On Monday, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) at 7 am, the AQI recorded in Anand Vihar (487), Chandni Chowk (444), IGI Airport-T3 (494), Dwarka (499) was recorded as “severe.”

Given the worsening air quality in Delhi-NCR, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) imposed stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) on Sunday. The directions will be effective from today, Monday (November 18) from 8 am. This move comes amid the significant rise in the national capital’s AQI, which crossed the 500-mark in several areas in the previous week.

Furthermore, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an “orange alert” warning for Delhi on Monday, saying that the national capital may witness “dense” to “very dense” fog that could reduce visibility to as low as 200 metres in several parts of the city and surrounding areas.