{"id":327906,"date":"2020-10-24T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327906"},"modified":"2020-10-24T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:37:00","slug":"air-quality-in-delhi-hits-severe-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/air-quality-in-delhi-hits-severe-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality in Delhi hits \u2018severe\u2019 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=\"520\" height=\"437\" 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: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>With the rise of pollutants in the atmosphere, the air quality in the national capital reached the \u2018severe\u2019 category on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is at 432 in the \u2018severe\u2019 category at Alipur. At Mundka, the AQI level was 427 and AQI was 409 in Wazirpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As per experts, the severe level affects people&#8217;s health and impacts those with existing conditions.<\/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 in the national capital reached the \u2018severe\u2019 category on Saturday. According to reports, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is at 432 in the \u2018severe\u2019 category at Alipur. At Mundka, the AQI level was 427 and AQI was 409 in Wazirpur. As per experts, the [&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":[9724,429,13616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327906"}],"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=327906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327907,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327906\/revisions\/327907"}],"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=327906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}