Delhi breathed “very poor” air for a seventh straight day on Monday and relief is unlikely till Christmas, agencies said, as a soupy haze sheathed the Capital, with the state government announcing it would shore up measures on the ground to keep pollution in check. The Capital clocked a 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) of 373 at 4pm on Monday, marginally lower than 377 the previous day, but the 12th day this reading has been in the red zone or worse on the pollution scale. (Sunil Ghosh/HT) Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta said the government will introduce new regulations to curb congestion due to “uncontrolled e-rickshaws”, make pollution-under-control (PUC) certificate fines more stringent by preventing waivers and plans to operate ‘pooling and sharing e-buses’ in NCR with the help of aggregator companies. State environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa, meanwhile, warned of action against polluting industries as well as private companies that do not adhere to ongoing orders requiring 50% staff to work from home. The Capital clocked a 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) …