{"id":315722,"date":"2019-10-16T06:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315722"},"modified":"2019-10-16T06:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:09:24","slug":"air-quality-turns-very-poor-at-many-places-in-delhi-ncr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-turns-very-poor-at-many-places-in-delhi-ncr\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality turns &#8216;very poor&#8217; at many places in Delhi-NCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305301 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution.jpg 555w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution-500x420.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/>Several areas in the Delhi-National Capital Region recorded air quality in the &#8220;very poor&#8221; category on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The neighbouring areas of Delhi also recorded a spike in pollution levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is believed that crop residue burning in Punjab and Haryana, along with other areas are contributing to polluting the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi government has also shared NASA satellite images showing large scale stubble burning in the national capital and its adjoining areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Environment Minister Kailash Gehlot on Tuesday wrote to Union Minister Harsh Vardhan requesting access to SAFAR&#8217;s data so that the administration could take corrective measures to curb pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">From last one week, the air quality of Delhi has seen constantly decreasing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several areas in the Delhi-National Capital Region recorded air quality in the &#8220;very poor&#8221; category on Wednesday morning. The neighbouring areas of Delhi also recorded a spike in pollution levels. It is believed that crop residue burning in Punjab and Haryana, along with other areas are contributing to polluting the air. The Delhi government has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315722"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315723,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315722\/revisions\/315723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}