{"id":327586,"date":"2020-10-15T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327586"},"modified":"2020-10-15T10:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:36:20","slug":"delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-launches-red-light-on-gaadi-off-campaign-to-tackle-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-launches-red-light-on-gaadi-off-campaign-to-tackle-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launches &#8216;Red Light On, Gaadi Off&#8217; campaign to tackle air pollution"},"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-323783 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kejriwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/kejriwal.jpg 648w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/kejriwal-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/kejriwal-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/kejriwal-596x420.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/>To tackle the issue of air pollution, Delhi chief minister\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal\u00a0on Thursday launched a campaign &#8216;Red Light On, Gaadi Off&#8217; under which people will be encouraged to turn off engines of their vehicles while waiting at traffic signals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal said, \u201cWhile waiting on a traffic signal, we must switch our vehicles off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLaunching another initiative to tackle air pollution in Delhi,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere are one crore vehicles registered in the city. As per experts, even if 10 lakh vehicles turn off ignition at traffic signals, then 1.5 tonnes of PM10 will reduce in a year,\u201d said Kejriwal while addressing an online media briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTurning off vehicle engines will not only stop pollution but also result in saving of Rs 7,000 every year,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cLets accept that stubble burning causes huge pollution every yr in North India during this time. And lets all together find a soln sincerely. Blame game and politics hasn\u2019t helped anyone. People r suffering. I am extremely worried that pollution will play havoc coupled wid corona,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The pollution levels in the city remained in the \u201cvery poor\u201d category on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To tackle the issue of air pollution, Delhi chief minister\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal\u00a0on Thursday launched a campaign &#8216;Red Light On, Gaadi Off&#8217; under which people will be encouraged to turn off engines of their vehicles while waiting at traffic signals. Kejriwal said, \u201cWhile waiting on a traffic signal, we must switch our vehicles off.\u201d \u201cLaunching another initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[306,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327586"}],"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=327586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327587,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327586\/revisions\/327587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}