{"id":327521,"date":"2020-10-13T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327521"},"modified":"2020-10-13T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:24:13","slug":"air-quality-in-delhi-hits-very-poor-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-in-delhi-hits-very-poor-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality in Delhi hits &#8216;very poor&#8217; level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-ncr-defies-scs-diwali-order-pollution-level-plunged-to-hazardous-category\/delhi-pollution\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305301\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305301 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution-500x420.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-pollution.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a>With the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere, the air quality in the national capital reached the &#8216;very poor&#8217; category on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, an increase in farm fires in Punjab, Haryana are impacting the air quality in Delhi-NCR. More than 700 cases of stubble burning were reported from Punjab and Haryana this year, which is much higher than the incidents reported last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Air Quality Index (AQI) is at 332 in &#8216;very poor&#8217; category. At ITO, the PM 10 level was 320 and PM 2.5 was 389, whereas, in Anand Vihar, the PM 10 level was 428 and PM 2.5 was 397. The 24-hour average AQI was 261 on Monday, it was 216 on Sunday and 221 on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">An AQI between 0-50 is considered &#8216;good&#8217;, 51-100 is &#8216;satisfactory&#8217;, 101-200 &#8216;moderate&#8217;, 201-300 &#8216;poor&#8217;, 301-400 &#8216;very poor&#8217; and 401-500 is considered as &#8216;severe\/hazardous&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere, the air quality in the national capital reached the &#8216;very poor&#8217; category on Tuesday. According to reports, an increase in farm fires in Punjab, Haryana are impacting the air quality in Delhi-NCR. More than 700 cases of stubble burning were reported from Punjab and Haryana this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[9724,429,13582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327521"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327522,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327521\/revisions\/327522"}],"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=327521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}