After Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to the “bad” level, authorities in the National Capital Region (NCR) were instructed to strictly carry out the steps outlined in Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). The periodic construction bans imposed by the authorities because of the nearly annual increase in pollution have become a key barrier for the Delhi-NCR real estate market and are having an effect on project completion. An average one-month suspension of all construction work results in a project delay of at least one month.