{"id":306626,"date":"2018-12-05T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306626"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:48:45","slug":"air-pollution-alarming-aqi-recorded-hazardous-rating-across-delhi-ncr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-pollution-alarming-aqi-recorded-hazardous-rating-across-delhi-ncr\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution alarming: AQI recorded \u2018Hazardous\u2019 rating across Delhi-NCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305156 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-696x451.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1068x692.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-648x420.jpg 648w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR remained a cause of concern as the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded \u2018Hazardous\u2019 rating across many areas of the NCR in December 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, the overall air quality of national capital remained between \u2018Very Poor\u2019 and \u2018Severe\u2019 has AQI been recorded at 373.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The air was particularly toxic at Anand Vihar (AQI 499 at 10 PM) and Pusa (AQI 454 at 11 PM).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The air quality is particularly deteriorating in the adjoining regions of Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Hapur as the air pollution levels were registered at very bad levels in these five areas as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM10 level in the entire NCR was alarming and questions were raised over the government\u2019s inaction to curb the pollution levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The rising AQI levels are a matter of health concern. It will cause continued damage to the lungs of millions of residents in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR remained a cause of concern as the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded \u2018Hazardous\u2019 rating across many areas of the NCR in December 5. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, the overall air quality of national capital remained between \u2018Very Poor\u2019 and \u2018Severe\u2019 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":305156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[4138,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306627,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306626\/revisions\/306627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}