{"id":327571,"date":"2020-10-15T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327571"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:02:08","slug":"with-rise-of-pollutants-air-quality-dips-further-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/with-rise-of-pollutants-air-quality-dips-further-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"With rise of pollutants, air quality dips further in Delhi"},"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-pollution-choke-to-death-or-plant-to-breathe\/pollution-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305156\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305156 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pollution-2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"393\" 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: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a>With the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere, the air quality deteriorated further in the national capital on Thursday.<\/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 366 \u2018very poor\u2019 category at ITO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Central Pollution Control Board in a tweet said, &#8220;In view of the upcoming winter season, CPCB will be deploying 50 teams for inspection in Delhi-NCR starting October 15, 2020.&#8221;<\/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 \u2018good\u2019, 51-100 is \u2018satisfactory\u2019, 101-200 \u2018moderate\u2019, 201-300 \u2018poor\u2019, 301-400 \u2018very poor\u2019 and 401-500 is considered as \u2018severe\/hazardous\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere, the air quality deteriorated further in the national capital on Thursday. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[9724,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327571"}],"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=327571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327572,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327571\/revisions\/327572"}],"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=327571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}